Though space is chock-full of interstellar medium, it tends to be invisible unless lit up by a celestial spotlight. Sometimes ...
The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.
While large portions of the pillars appear dark red in the Hubble image, the JWST image depicts most of the formation in ...
Webb's observations of infrared light echoes near Cassiopeia A unveil the complex 3D structure of interstellar dust and gas, ...
From windswept craters to frigid ice caps, explore Martian landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes and rovers ...
The shockwave Webb studied emerged from Cassiopeia A, now a neutron star, about 11,000 light-years from Earth. After the ...
Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...
A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of ...
A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...
"Interstellar" (January ... director takes us to deep space with Matthew McConaughey as he pilots a team of scientists who enter a wormhole in search of a planet humanity can inhabit as Earth ...