A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

Astronauts perform so many out-of-this-world experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). They use a specially-built X-ray telescope to study distant dead stars, collect particles from outer ...

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A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky ...

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NGC 3312 is located front and center in the new image, surrounded by bright stars and galaxies. A smudge of interstellar material can be seen at the lower right of the galaxy, suggesting it is being ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a distant zone dubbed the "Extreme Outer Galaxy," and zoomed ...

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Ressler The James Webb Space Telescope has peered at some very, very distant objects, but despite its name, Webb ...