NASA will move ahead with a new space telescope to see the cold, dusty universe far more sharply than any before it, chasing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140.

“Firefly Sparkle,” a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang, has been imaged by the James Webb Space ...

Researchers are now recreating that transition with some of the most detailed simulations of the early Universe yet produced.

Long ago, the patch of sky that would become our galactic neighbourhood looked nothing like a galaxy. It was a collection of ...

Researchers are using extraordinarily detailed computer simulations to reconstruct one of the most transformative periods in cosmic history: the era ...

Silicon Valley 101 host Chen Qian set the core question for the third annual Alignment 2026 conference—scheduled for October 10–11, 2026—in ...

This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step. As we navigate through ...

Opposition means that Saturn is on the opposite side of the Earth as the Sun. When an object is in opposition, it is at its ...

Tonight Saturn is at opposition, appearing opposite the sun in our sky. This happens as we pass by Saturn in our faster, ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Early Sunday morning, NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The mission is to help astronomers search for dark energy and planets.

在太阳系形成之初，地球曾经历过一场惊心动魄的碰撞。科学家推测，一颗火星大小的行星“忒伊亚”（Theia）撞击了原始地球，这次灾难性的事件不仅塑造了地球，还留下了月球。如今，天文学家正借助詹姆斯·韦布空间望远镜（James Webb Space ...