One of the main objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was to measure the size and age of the Universe, ...

NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes observe explosive star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud's NGC 460 and NGC 456 clusters.

Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

First responders were dispatched to the Penn–North neighborhood after at least 25 people experienced overdose symptoms on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of merging galaxies II ZW 96. The merger is located 500 million light ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

Dark matter may ignite brown dwarfs into glowing “dark dwarfs” Only self-annihilating dark matter types would create this effect James Webb Telescope may already be able to detect dark dwarfs ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever encountered.