Exoplanet science has entered an exciting new phase with the development of the EXCITE mission, a groundbreaking project ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is being lauded for capturing the clearest images to date of the Egg Nebula. Here's what we ...

NASA said Tuesday the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in what’s called the Egg Nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, bright spot near a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures taken by the Gemini South telescope in Chile ...

Worlds like Tatooine—the iconic twin-sun planet from Star Wars—are no longer confined to science fiction; they have entered ...

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.