In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a ...

NASA's Hubble telescope has revealed a striking new multi-wavelength image of the galaxy NGC 1559 in a photograph that ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The first results from JAXA's XRISM X-ray telescope are out, and they reveal new features of the superheated gas around a ...

Researchers have discovered an extraordinarily aligned gravitational lens system, dubbed the Carousel Lens, that involves a ...

The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...

The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...

Scientists have discovered the largest known black hole jet, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light years across. This colossal jet raises intriguing questions about its perfectly straight ...

Gravitational lenses bend and focus light from the more distant cosmos, offering astronomers a cheat code for chronicling the ...