New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals a giant hand stretches across the cosmos within the Eagle Nebula, showing unprecedented ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...

Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift ...