Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the ...

The ring-shaped clouds around the nebula RCW 120 were detected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in this composite image. The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million ...

A retired Tucson heart doctor won a national amateur astronomy award for helping University of Arizona scientists detect some ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post ...

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The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...

The South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland is one of the world's leading sites for optical and infrared ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

JWST revealed a massive star that ended its life in an explosion when the universe was just a cosmic toddler.

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. The gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and ...