The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Star trails are the visible imprint of Earth's rotation. As our planet spins around its axis, the stars appear to sweep ...

A new trick with light has now helped capture the sharpest-ever measurement of a disk around a nearby star, beta Canis ...

NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that an exceptionally rare star duo in the Milky Way has a third companion — ...

A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

Pan across the James Webb Space Telescope's view of the Cosmic Cliffs, "a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the sun 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...