Some parts of space are hot! However, there's also what’s known as the cosmic background temperature, which is minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit.

Whenever we see rocket launches, moon landing pictures, or even videos from the International Space Station, there never seems to be any stars visible in the background, it just looks dark. So to ...

NASA announced on Dec. 19, 2023, that it has found a cluster of young stars called NGC 2264, also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” which uncannily resembles the shape of a Christmas tree ...

New research shows how observers can determine satellite shapes by watching them occult background stars. There are thousands of satellites in LEO, a region defined as below an altitude of 2,000 ...

In 1907, Albert Einstein had his “happiest thought” — people in free fall do not feel their own weight. This simple idea laid the foundation for his general theory of relativity, which ...

The space agencies working on the telescope explain that, in the background of the shot, lie extremely distant galaxies. "Blue objects with diffraction spikes are stars, and the closer they are ...

According to the space agency, the cluster, officially known as NGC 2264, is a group of young stars in the Milky Way that is approximately 2,500 light years away from Earth. MORE: NASA telescope ...

He and colleagues surveyed five star-forming regions - relatively close in space terms to Earth - using the VISTA telescope at the ESO Paranal Observatory in Chile.