The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in a bizarre nebula that looks like a brain floating in space. Formed ...

NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories -- the Spitzer Space Telescope -- after 16 years of scanning the universe with infrared eyes. The end comes Thursday when ground controllers ...

Volunteer astronomers sifting through infrared images from a retired NASA telescope have spotted a faint object racing ...

NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on ...

Infrared observations from the James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely pass about 21,200 km above the Moon in December 2032.

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy, a vast collection of stars, planets, and other celestial objects bound together by gravity. It’s a barred spiral galaxy, which means it has a central bar-shaped ...