The James Webb telescope spent another year collecting instantly iconic space imagery. Here are some of our favorites.

Astronomers have discovered over a thousand photos of asteroids that had been hiding in Hubble images, unnoticed until now.

NASA’s New Horizons mission revolutionized our view of Pluto, revealing a vibrant, geologically active world full of ...

Infrared light reveals the galaxy to be a docile place, rather than the shining, roiling 'Sombrero' seen in visible light.

Vesto Slipher was not well known, but his groundbreaking observations helped uncover one of astronomy’s most fundamental ...

Webb’s Powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument Resolves Clumpy Nature of Dusty Disk Astronomers are known for their precision, but ...

Astronomers heading the SETI search for extraterrestrial intelligence predict their quest might first spark an encounter with ...

The Sombrero galaxy, or Messier 104 or M104, is roughly 30 million light-years from the Earth in the Virgo constellation.

Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and ...

A side-by-side comparison of the photo with its predecessor from the Hubble telescope shows how clearer the newer telescope ...

Credit: NASA/ MIRI/ NIRCam/ Giuseppe, et al 2024/ EWOCS Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken ... one ...

It was a good year for space science as Sumner Starrfield, an astronomer at Arizona State University, described what was to ...