Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

The first direct evidence for auroras on Neptune has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble Space Telescope. Auroras happen when energetic particles from the Sun become ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA's ...

Also joining the RSE’s 2025 new fellows is David Field, chief executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs both Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park. He previously served ...

A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles. Launched in 2021 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb observed the scene in the infrared. NASA said in a statement it was ...