When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

The crew, made up of all women, also includes a NASA rocket scientist, a bioastronautics research scientist and a film ...

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million ... “I think that’s the real power of the telescope.” Euclid’s galaxy-hunting prowess comes down to just three tools.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space ...

Amanda Seyfried went into detail about why she turned down the role Gamora in the blockbuster film Guardians Of The Galaxy, opposite Chris Pratt, more than a decade ago. While promoting her new ...

The unusually large, luminous distant galaxy, called JADES-GS-z14-0, was initially detected in January 2024 using the James Webb Space Telescope, which observes the universe in infrared light that ...

the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency—is the most distant known galaxy. Its light takes a whopping 13.4 billion years to reach us, meaning that we see it at a time when the the ...