Day 19 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a beacon in the clouds. This image from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The galaxy filling the frame in this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month is NGC 2566, a spiral ...

A team from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory converts NASA space data to sound, creating sonifications for more accessible science discovery.

"Voids are regions of the universe where the density is below average," team member and University of Saint Andrews ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 1,70,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a ...

NASA is preparing to go where it has never gone before – as the agency prepares to send a space probe to "touch the sun." ...

On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. The Andromeda galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, and ...

Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302): Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across ...

A few young stars shine through dense clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula’s Trapezium embedded ... in the Large ...

Interstellar tunnel linking our Solar System to cosmic neighborhoods. Learn how supernovae and stellar winds shape our galaxy ...

Main Camera Quad 200 MP, f/1.7, 24mm (wide), 1/1.3", 0.6µm, multi-directional PDAF, OIS 10 MP, f/2.4, 67mm (telephoto), 1/3.52", 1.12µm, PDAF, OIS, 3x optical zoom ...

The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star ...