"The center of the Milky Way and most of the space between stars is filled with a lot of dust, and this is important for our galaxy's life cycle." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The engine once powered a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Next, it will power a crewed mission around the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is viewed face-on in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that ...

An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. (NASA via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning rapidly and altering space-time around it, a new study has found. Space-time is the four-dimensional continuum that ...

You are face-to-face with spiral galaxy NGC 3596, courtesy of an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. British astronomer William Herschel was the first person to see and document the galaxy ...

Left: section of the MIRI image. Right: section of the NIRCam image. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of ...

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have solved a long-standing dilemma about the mass of infrared bright merging galaxies. Because galaxies are the largest directly observable objects in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy. It has been named Zhúlóng, after a giant red solar dragon and god from Chinese mythology. It is an incredible size ...