The Milky Way seems to be currently colliding with one of its galactic neighbors, and that discovery might change how we ...

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Not long ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered into Cosmic Dawn, the cosmological period when the first galaxies ...

The iPhone 16 has a similar main camera as the iPhone 16 Pro Max, so I spent an evening using it for astrophotography to ...

At first glance, the image might look like a rather typical shot from the ISS: You see stars and the curvature of Earth, with a distinct orange glow above our planet's surface. But there's something ...

A newly discovered galaxy, nicknamed "Firefly Sparkle," offers an unprecedented early glimpse at a galaxy formation similar ...

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory will lend insight into what happened after the Big Bang, measure the glow of galaxies near and far ...

For the first time, scientists using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered and measured the mass ...

Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...

The lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office shares expert tips on how to catch the Geminid meteor shower—even with a ...

Mowla, who spotted the galaxy in Webb’s image, was drawn to its gleaming star clusters, because objects that sparkle ...