A thin shell of air wraps around Earth, stretching about 20 miles above the surface. This invisible veil is packed with tiny ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines ...

Stars have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around ...

The photos capture both our neighboring planets and galaxies far, far away in a stunning release to celebrate one of NASA’s ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

Exquisite snapshots released on April 28 provide a rare glimpse into the earliest stages of planet formation in more than a dozen star systems, revealing where planets emerge, how quickly they ...

Bring the Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters and observe distant galaxies and nebulas with your own eyes — you can even photograph your subject with a smart telescope.

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we see around us on a cosmic level, like stars, planets, and moons, and on an ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...