The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...

Hollywood liberal George Clooney promoted his new play on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Tuesday night, saying it ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

captured by European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, an example of an Einstein ring. (European Space Agency via AP) This ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was going through preliminary tests in September 2023 when it captured ...