The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

The all-female crew spent just four minutes in zero-gravity space, and took much of the time to mug for the camera inside ...

Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion.

NASA’s Webb Telescope captured NGC 1514’s glowing rings and dust clumps, revealing oxygen but no carbon clues to a dying star ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

Scientists have been left stunned after stumbling across a lone black hole drifting through space. It's not every day ...

In a TikTok posted Monday, model and actress Emily Ratajkowski spoke out against a mission that same morning that sent stars like Gayle King and Katy Perry into space. "That space mission this ...