In a study published in The Astrophysics Journal, a Michigan State University researcher used the NASA Chandra X-Ray ...

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

While many are genre-defining works, or at least have some brilliant moments, they’re all a little dry – or a little dated – ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

Newly-processed image of Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster shows that this old space telescope can still impress with its ...

The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of ...

This result was totally unexpected by theories of early galaxy formation and has caught astronomers by surprise Roberto Maiolino A key goal of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has been to ...

Researchers used the galaxy's brightness in different infrared filters to estimate its redshift, which measures a galaxy's distance from Earth based on how its light ... to be 13.0. This equates to a ...

HH 49/50, in particular, is located within the Chamaeleon I cloud complex, a stellar nursery about 625 light-years from Earth ... of a background galaxy One of the most striking aspects of Webb’s ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has studied the puzzling Herbig-Haro object 49/50, created by a nearby forming star.