Vera Cooper Rubin (1928–2016) was a pioneering American astronomer who reshaped our understanding of the cosmos. In the 1970s ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy IC 758.ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick This ...

The launch scene in Interstellar proves one of the most common criticisms of Christopher Nolan wrong. While Nolan has directed several acclaimed movies such as Oppenheimer, Inception, and of ...

The intricate whorls and striations of dust that drift between the stars have just been revealed in stupefying detail. In new images from JWST, we're finally seeing exquisite details of the flow and ...

The Webb images show dense sheets of gas and dust stretching across hundreds of astronomical units. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured highly detailed images showing the complex layers ...

Getting a glimpse of the brilliant scene through JWST, a team at NASA created a 3D scan of the interstellar material that displays its intricacies in tremendous detail. Now, astronomers are able to ...

From the initial conflict between Coop and his daughter’s teachers, who claim the moon landings were fake, to the triumphant ending, “Interstellar” is a tribute to the calm and curious exploration of ...

Interstellar dust has a significant impact on many astronomical research fields, as it absorbs and scatters a large fraction of the star light, and influences star formation and galaxy evolution at ...