Astronomers recently identified a mysterious object near Earth that left them puzzled—until they realized Elon Musk was ...

A new study by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton highlights the challenges planets ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

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

Early 2025 is a good time for skygazing and spotting up to seven planets in the night sky – if you have a little help.

The James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers groundbreaking insight into a new type of planet described as unlike ...

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"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

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