Dubbed “Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. In it, towers of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust are seen to rise along the nebula’s wall ...

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

The Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to a wide-brimmed Mexican hat, has now been captured in a completely new light ...

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows GAL-CLUS-022058s, a rare galaxy in the Fornax constellation, curving around its spherical companion. This Hubble image captures HH111, a rare ...

Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and its fate.

New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and ...

Brian Greene (Cosmic String Theory) and Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel have collaborated on a National Geographic coffee-table ...

Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying.

This new work is led by Dr John Forbes at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. It builds on the results of co-author ...

The Sombrero galaxy, which is about the size of the Milky Way, is positioned some 30 million light-years away. The Webb ...

The sharp resolution of Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) also brings into focus details of the galaxy’s outer ring, ...