NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

ESA Aging satellites and astronaut tools: How space junk has become an orbital threat Abell 2390 Abell 2390 is a galaxy cluster, a giant conglomeration of many galaxies like the Milky Way.

Good space RPGs come in all shapes and sizes, as the core elements that define role-playing have been mixed with many genres over the decades. They allow us to explore the galaxy and live out our ...

Sci-fi movies can bend the rules however they please, but they're often more compelling when they stick to the facts and present more accurate depictions of outer space. Many of the best space ...

Outer space is one of LEGO's classic themes. And it's easy to see why. Few subjects do more to excite a person's wonder and imagination. Space exploration has many upsides. There's the abstract ...

While Earth is located about 26,000 light-years from what's known as the galactic center, the outer portions of the Milky Way are even further, at about 58,000 light-years from our galaxy's ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the clumpy nature of the dust along the galaxy’s outer ring.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.

Outer space has always captivated human imagination, sparking wonder, curiosity, and a sense of mystery. It’s a realm so vast and incomprehensible that it challenges the limits of our understanding.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been no stranger to taking things to the extreme since its launch on Christmas day 2021, observing early galaxies billions of light-years away that ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the very outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Known as the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this region is located more than 58,000 light-years from the ...

“ Eyes on the Universe: Images from Space Telescopes,” at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, is a jewel box exhibition of 14 photographs of supernovas, planets, galaxies and ...