A space mission designed to create a three-dimensional ... shining brightly amid a sea of other galaxies and stars. The nebula is home to a dying star and lies about 3,000 light-years from Earth.

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's Era of Reionization may have occurred much earlier than previously thought.

MANHATTAN — In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has generated significant and unprecedented insights into the far reaches of space, and a new study by a ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted some strange ... in our own galaxy to extrapolate more generally to the other galaxies in the universe. There's always been concerns about whether what ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. The data suggests Andromeda had a chaotic past unlike ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space mission has detected 26 million galaxies, some as far away as 10.5 billion ...

An elliptical galaxy (at center) is seen being wrapped ... the spiral arms have been stretched into circles. The James Webb Space Telescope data used in this image was taken as part of the Strong ...

The space observatory ... so Webb and other observatories such as ALMA, or the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile’s Atacama Desert, are seeing the galaxy as it was when ...