SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...

One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...

For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the presence of two gigantic, high-energy “bubbles” towering over and beneath the Milky Way’s center, extending 50,000 light-years into space. First ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

NGC 7023, also known as the Iris Nebula, is a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It's a bright nebula that's visible in the northern sky.

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

NASA is targeting late February to launch a new mission to survey hundreds of millions of galaxies to explore the origins of the universe The mission ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

Hubble observations reveal that the stars in Andromeda's halo are much younger than those in the Milky Way. This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...