The Sombrero galaxy looks entirely different in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a Mexican hat, it ...

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"You could lose, or at least completely fry, rocky planets forming close to such a star." ...

Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United States has been ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere ...

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1637 showcases ongoing star formation and the effects of supernovae like SN 1999EM in shaping galactic ...

On this day in 1993, STS-61 lifted off for the first NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, traveling a total of ...

By searching sparsely populated regions of the galaxy, astronomers have for the first time found the source of a kind of ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the accretion disk around the young star FU Orionis is ...

Astronomers heading the search for extraterrestrial intelligence predict their quest might first spark an encounter with ...