For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy that not only existed ...

This campaign of observations used a coronagraph, a system that creates little eclipses by blocking the light of stars. In ...

Stunning new photographs by a Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks ...

"As fascinating as the galaxy appears at visible wavelengths, some of NGC 5643's most interesting features are invisible to ...

Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the most distant single star found yet. It took the light from the star 12.9 billion light years to reach Earth. Learn how it was discovered. Credit; ...

Firefly Sparkle is a lightweight among the universe's galaxy contenders seen by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, but the discovery is no less important than more massive galaxies because of what it ...

Galaxies in the present-day Universe fall into two broad categories. There are spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, which are ...

Wellesley College astronomers capture images of 'Firefly Sparkle,' a young galaxy that mirrors the Milky Way, enhancing our ...