This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

As the Trump administration continues to slash federal spending, rumored cuts to science funding has left the future of Big ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes ...

After scientists at Menlo Park’s SLAC national accelerator laboratory spent over two decades developing and constructing a ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

Harvard astronomers have announced the discovery of over 100 previously undiscovered moons orbiting the planet Saturn.