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Here’s how it works. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering what happened to today in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe.

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors ...

In turn, the Virgo Supercluster is part of a larger structure of galaxy clusters called Laniakea, Hawaiian for "immense heaven." It contains about 100,000 galaxies, according to Space.com.

Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar ...

NASA has unveiled striking new images of a galaxy pair, IC 2163 and NGC 2207, captured through the lenses of the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. The images reveal what looks ...

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly ...

Our Milky Way galaxy forms the equivalent of two or three new Sun-like stars per year. Both galaxies have hosted seven known supernovae, each of which may have cleared space in their arms ...