"Prior to the launch of James Webb, we thought we would find really, really far away galaxies," Gibson said. "But we thought that closer to us, we already had a pretty good understanding of all ...

Our egos don't let us admit it, but we are probably smaller than a molecule in the larger scheme of things. An appropriate example would be comparing a speck of dust with planet Earth. That's us ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

JWST images reveal galaxy rotation patterns that challenge the Big Bang model. Could the universe be spinning?

A "classification" is when a volunteer or citizen scientist finishes marking up or sorting one image or other piece of data.

The results are paintings that look like stunning landscapes and far away galaxies. "Part of my inspiration came from actually having little materials at the time," Lausman told INSIDER ...

NASA's newest space telescope will scan the entire sky in a range of near-infrared wavelengths to help astronomers better ...

The Hubble Space Telescope revealed that the Andromeda Galaxy’s ecosystem differs from our Milky Way’s. This shows how these ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers don't ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't ...