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The Sombrero galaxy, which is about the size of the Milky Way, is positioned some 30 million light-years away. The Webb ...

As we gaze up at the night sky, pondering the vastness of the universe, an intriguing event is set to unfold: a football ...

In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the ...

Taking into account a phenomenon first identified by Sir Isaac Newton and later confirmed by Albert Einstein, researchers ...

Astronomers from the Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea and elsewhere have discovered a rare isolated group of five star-forming dwarf galaxies in the local universe. The finding was reported in ...

The Guitar Nebula, powered by pulsar PSR B2224+65, produces glowing particles and X-rays. This reveals how particles travel ...

A series of "red monsters" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are complicating our accepted ideas about the ...

Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, was researching young transiting systems in space when ...

One of humanity’s gifts is the ability to know a staggering truth without going mad. The late, great author Douglas Adams ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

The Landolt NASA Space Mission, hosted by George Mason University, will orbit an artificial star to refine telescope ...