A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

SPHEREx, NASA’s new space telescope, just opened its eyes to the universe and delivered its very first images from space.

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The composite image makes it look as though the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop.

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A galaxy gleaming in the Cosmic Dawn, just 300 million years after the Big Bang, has just been spotted harboring something it oughtn't. JADES-GS-z14-0, new observations reveal, is rich with oxygen – ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found, suggesting that early galaxies formed more rapidly than previously thought. The record-breaking discovery, reported by two ...

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