The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

The same can't be said of "space weather" from solar events, which can seriously affect satellites and even passenger planes.

To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard ...

As of now, supernovas do not pose any harm to Earth as experts suggest that they have to be 75 light years closer to the ...

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light. This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, ...

The Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula located about 2,030 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is estimated to be around 8,000 years old. The Horsehead Nebula, located in the ...

In the constellation Dorado, 49 million light-years from Earth, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 has been imaged by the NASA ...

Astronomers observed neutron star 4U 1820-30 spinning at 716 times per second, among the galaxy’s fastest, emitting bursts ...