All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Artist Ashley Zelinskie's new VR work is called "Twin Quasar." Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I can't travel both — actually, wait, I can travel both.

Learn about the thermal light echo, observed by NASA, that causes intricate layers of interstellar gas and dust to emit an ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again delivered a mesmerizing view of the cosmos, this time capturing the ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the formation of rocky planets like ours.

RIT Professor Joel Kastner leads a research team that determines the true three-dimensional structure of the iconic Ring ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope, slated for a 2027 launch, will provide insights into dark energy and exoplanets. It will ...

The research group observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth; when the universe was half its current age.