NASA's JWST has uncovered solid water ice in a distant star system, reshaping our understanding of life's building blocks and ...

The image took nine snapshots and 120 hours of observing time; it is currently the longest exposure yet from JWST. As the ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

A vast star-forming cloud of molecular hydrogen that is one of the largest single structures in the sky has been discovered hidden near the solar system. The crescent-shaped cloud—which its ...

Even within our own solar system, distances are enormous. NASA astrophysicist Dr. Amber Straughn explains that driving a car ...

Astronomers have just discovered a new celestial body in our solar system that could challenge major space theory. 2017 OF201 ...

More than 150 moons orbit worlds in our solar system. Known as natural ... must exist in the Milky Way galaxy alone. So does Earth have a twin somewhere in the universe? With ever-advancing ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which ... and dust that orbit the central core. The solar system orbits within the Milky Way's disk.

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* ... with a black hole of the same mass, our solar system would orbit similarly to how it does now, but ...