Karen Abarca began her professional journey as a costume designer in California.Now, she's an engineer who worked on NASA's ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

A possible new "jellyfish" galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could deepen our understanding of galaxy ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Webb’s new images of the Bullet Cluster reveal the most detailed dark matter map yet, shedding light on cosmic collisions and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...