Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The first quarter moon on January 6. The waxing gibbous moon passes just north of Jupiter in the northeast. The big action is ...

Astronomers used JWST and gravitational lensing to spot 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away.

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

This year, it's Juan Soto, Corbin Burnes, and Teoscar Hernández. As much as the Blue Jays want to up their payroll and add star talent, no one seems to be taking the bait. Unfortunately ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

Observations of VFTS 243 provide evidence that black holes can form directly from the collapse of massive stars, without a ...

A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...