The 16th day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar shows a spiral galaxy displaying at least nine concentric ...

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Discovered in archival data, the newly identified exoplanet formed after the dinosaurs went extinct. In a finding that echoes ...

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Day 2 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a stellar nursery. Reflection nebula GN 04.32.8 is part of the stellar nursery called the Taurus Molecular Cloud, roughly 480 light-years from Earth.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation’s NoirLab released the picture Wednesday.

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A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation's NoirLab released the picture Wednesday. Snapped last month by the ...

James Webb telescope finds something 'very exciting' shooting out of first black hole ever imaged There are two main hypotheses for how these supermassive black holes form so early, Chavez Ortiz said: ...

The U.S. government shutdown, which ran from Oct. 1 to Nov. 12, delayed the release of the highly anticipated images, which include snaps taken from instruments around Mars and the sun over the past ...

A comet, dubbed C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), spectacularly broke apart into three huge chunks — and anybody with an eight-inch telescope or bigger can catch the resulting fireworks show for the next several ...