NGC 2775, also known as Caldwell 48, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer. It is 67 million light-years away from the Milky Way. NGC 3521 is located almost 40 million light-years away in the ...

The program’s overall contract is worth up to $4.82 billion and over the next five years, Viasat will have a piece of that work. From there, NASA has the option to extend the contract an additional ...

As space expanded, everything spread out and cooled. Nowadays, the universe is not only huge but also cold in its average temperature (just a few degrees above absolute zero), though stars and ...

The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world orbiting a red dwarf star about 47 light-years from Earth. Previously likened to a mini-Neptune, in-depth observations obtained using JWST now ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

One of the most notable baby stars in the galaxy, T Tauri, could be about to vanish from sight for decades as a thick, obscuring disk of gas and dust marauds in front of it.

The most detailed panorama of the entire Andromeda galaxy is packed with science that could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve.

In 2025, one might assume that all types of stars in the Milky Way have been cataloged, yet the universe continues to surprise us. In 1953, American astronomer Alan Sandage revolutionized our ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captures a protostar molecular cloud, showcasing PAHs' diffuse blue light and a filamentary structure. As the protostar ages, these structures fade, ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...