The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a new kind of galactic portrait, revealing a luminous thread of gas and newborn ...

Imaging the comet every four minutes, the campaign marks what the space agency proudly states 'may be the longest any comet ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Astrophotography has shifted from a niche pursuit to a mainstream hobby, and the telescope you choose now matters as much as ...

NASA's new images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show typical comet activity, as scientists dismiss online claims that it is ...

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...

It must be stressed that Comet 3I/ATLAS poses absolutely no threat to Earth and will remain far away. On its closest approach ...

Two millenniums before blastoff, astronomy belonged as much to the realms of art, philosophy and religion as it did to what ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...