Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has added another honor to its name by locating a record number of new stars in a faraway ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...

After a close look with a powerful radio telescope, astronomers are still puzzled by a pair of objects with strange ...

The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring iconic images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The stamps, ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

The intricate whorls and striations of dust that drift between the stars have just been revealed in stupefying detail.

Space book authors Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III offer a primer for the new Space Age with a look at how it all ...