Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...

The Red Spider Nebula gives us a possible preview of what might happen to our own Sun in about 5 billion years: as the Sun runs out of fuel, it may also swell into a red giant, shed its outer layers, ...

Everything that we can see and detect in the world around us—the stars, galaxies, flowers, our bodies, atoms—represents just 5% of the universe. The rest of it, according to current theories, is made ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made strides in unraveling the mysteries surrounding dark matter within the Draco dwarf galaxy, located about 250,000 light-years away. Dark matter, an invisible ...

"Our findings underscore the importance of considering diverse habitable environments in the search for life elsewhere," said Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan, who is an astronomer at the University of Cambridge ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown us images of space we’d never see otherwise, and one of the latest wonders it has ...

The Euclid space telescope successfully launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on July 1 and is now poised to collect data about millions of galaxies across one-third of the sky, part of a quest to ...

Why it matters: A new European mission will soon depart for its deep space destination, providing scientists here on Earth with a very advanced exploration tool. Its mission: to finally solve the ...