The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The photo shows two stars in the center, one which shed its layers of dust and gas as it neared the end of its life cycle.

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

You know how the James Webb Space Telescope ... the images we are seeing, we can now say that the instrument team nailed it," Jamie Bock, SPHEREx’s principal investigator at Caltech and NASA's ...

Lots happened while Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams were in space for 9 months: holidays, an election, to name a few NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams said goodbye to # ...

WASHINGTON — Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades ...

A closeup of the unnamed spiral galaxy originally captured in the Spitzer image from 2006, but shown here in much greater detail thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (NASA, ESA, CSA ...

NASA's TESS telescope has discovered an intriguing ... including by the James Webb Space Telescope. TOI-1453 c is a fascinating new discovery, being 2.2 times larger than Earth but only 2.9 ...