NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Taking advantage of a cosmic 'double lens,' astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present age.
Checkout these incredible and breathtaking images that show the immense beauty of the galaxy. Stanley Aryanto, 34, from Perth ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared jaw-dropping footage of an undulating green aurora as seen during a flyover from the International Space Station.
Fire up the grill for some space sausage! Dan Smith explains a weird event with intergalactic implications. 🌌💫 ...
Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...
Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...
A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.
Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...
I’ve used this fact a gazillion times; every atom in your body has been through the core of a star! The carbon in our bones ...
"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...
In the last couple of decades, it’s become increasingly clear that massive galaxies like our own Milky Way host supermassive ...