Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

Astronomers have identified a colossal giant radio galaxy (GRG) stretching 3.3 million light-years across—32 times the size ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

BAE Systems built both the spacecraft bus and telescope for the observatory, in addition to leading spacecraft integration ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...