NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully completed testing of a method for planetary defense against near-Earth objects, during which the DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid, causing the asteroid…
The Webb telescope has captured its first image of Neptune, in this image the rings of the planet are most clearly visible, and this image of Webb captures more than…
A vivid image of M77's center has been taken using visible and infrared observations by the Hubble Telescope. The red and blue stripes in this image highlight pockets of star…
The NGC 1961 galaxy, located in the constellation Camelopardalis, about 200 million light-years from Earth, is a spiral galaxy with curved arms. Taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the image…
When a star ends up in an explosion, the debris of that star spills over, making it often difficult for astronomers to determine the timeline of the star's demise from…
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the region in the Magellanic Cloud where thousands of never-before-seen, young stars are present in a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus, the region…
The Webb telescope took its first direct image of an exoplanet, known as HIP 65426b, an image not only special to Webb, but also of astronomy, as Webb's exoplanet image…
Spherical galaxies look like diamonds in a basket that are shining because of light, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured one such galaxy about 23,000 light-years away in the…
Twinkling stars and their planets in the Universe are filled with clouds of vaporized rock, and the first glimpses of wildly different environments on one of the many varieties of…
