Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

Grant and Cugno used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to pick out the infrared glow from the disk of gas and dust ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Going into space is no small feat, and the cost to get people, satellites, and more to space is equally costly. Here are the ...

When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

From the earliest artificial satellites to today's sophisticated space telescopes and GPS constellations, these marvels of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly ...

Finland's microsatellite was shot into space aboard the Transporter-15 mission, the institution said in a press release on ...