NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes observe explosive star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud's NGC 460 and NGC 456 clusters.

Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...

In the vast expanse between Uranus and Neptune, a team of researchers have uncovered something really quite extraordinary, a ...

Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992-2002, including serving as the head ...

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a stunning image of the Abell 209 galaxy cluster, located 2.8 billion ...

Greetings, stargazers. Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

Kluger, who has written about the Apollo Program, talks about his new book: 'Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...