On Friday, to mark the second anniversary of operations of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA released a breathtaking new cosmic image of two galaxies merging together. The telescope, which launched ...

A sparkling jeweled ring, created through a cosmic phenomenon called gravitational lensing, has been imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. The new image captures a distant quasar known as RX J1131 ...

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Close to 1,500 light years from Earth lie a pair of baby stellar twins known as Herbig-Haro 46/47—which are barely a few thousand years old. A star the size of our sun, by contrast, takes an average ...

The telescope has revealed galaxies, stars and black holes that formed in the early universe. After its first full year of science operations, astronomers have much to ponder. It was two years ago on ...

Nearly 30 years ago, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the first image of the Pillars of Creation — the iconic star nursery featuring thick pillars of gas and dust. Now, the new James Webb Space ...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and when none are left, the instrument will cease to conduct meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has been operating ...

From Galileo's meticulous sketches of Jupiter's moons in 1610 to Caroline Herschel's handwritten notes of comet discoveries, the history of astronomy is built on careful note-taking. Logbooks with ...

A new study reports two ice giant exoplanets colliding near a sun-like star, creating an astonishing afterglow in deep space. Astronomers were able to view the afterglow of light and plumes of dust as ...

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