The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have found "danger zones" for worlds where planet-birthing disks are blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars and rapidly disintegrate.

Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. Taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the display is a composite of 800,000 frames, showing ...

It's an image constructed with data from the now-retired Spitzer space telescope, and indicates streams of dust around the central region of Andromeda are getting swept within. Inside the central ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

All the major elements of NASA’s next flagship space telescope are now under one roof as NASA says its development remains on cost and schedule.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth orbit.

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...