From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is turning the Milky Way inside out, exposing the buried engines that actually drive our galaxy’s star production. By peering through dust, resolving crowded stellar ...

Ever stare into the night sky and wonder if we’re the main characters or just cosmic background noise? NASA’s latest 2024 findings suggest the answer might surprise you. This isn’t just pretty ...

Stretching across 8 light-years, the rare stellar eruption is about twice the distance between our sun and the next nearest stars. The stellar jet is in the nebula Sharpless 2-284, which contains a ...

Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Astronomers analyzing the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS say new trajectory and composition data point to an origin ...

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It was only earlier this month that American space agency NASA announced it had completed construction work on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and now we're already getting word of another ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations ...

Benita Albert brings us part two of the two-part series on the career of Bob Benjamin. His career interest in astronomy began soon after graduating from Oak Ridge High School. You will find it ...

Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the moon and other worlds.