On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases its first batch of survey data, including a preview of ...

ACT’s final data set delivers the most precise view of the early universe, mapping cosmic expansion and primordial gas ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

These distortions of distant objects occur when light from a background object passes a massive object, like a galaxy or ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA's ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three low-mass objects, seen in the insets to the right. These objects, which are much ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have explored the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs within the Flame Nebula, a hotbed of star formation in the constellation of Orion. The ...

Stunning new imagery and other data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal new details about a pair of enigmatic infrared ring structures accompanying a distant planetary nebula. The new ...