What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 18, 2025, the moon is 19 days old, in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 78% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Interstellar gas and dust heated by a centuries-old supernova glows in infrared light that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The spaces between stars in our galaxy are enigmatic realms filled with vast, diffuse clouds of ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope, slated for a 2027 launch, will provide insights into dark energy and exoplanets. It will undergo rigorous testing to ensure durability in space conditions. Equipped ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...

An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate patterns in space, capturing the aftermath of a centuries-old supernova.

Distant stars and galaxies are too far away for us to reach. We cannot go to them to study them. So everything we know about distant stars and galaxies comes from analysing the radiation they produce.