Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with the help of the world’s most powerful telescope, ventures through the Milky Way and into the universe beyond, on the hunt for alien worlds.

With the interstellar visitor headed for its closest approach to our home planet, NASA has advised people on how to best ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the Pismis 24 star cluster located in the core of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed stunning, unprecedented details of the Red Spider Nebula using its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). This new image, for the first time, fully ...

Galaxies that formed so early in the life of the universe are expected to be not very well-structured, turbulent and unstable ...