The Dark Energy Camera captured glowing nebulae in the Chamaeleon I star-forming region, illuminating the dense clouds with newborn starlight.

This celestial cloudscape captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505.

The kind of stars that form here are so massive that they will end their lives as destructive supernovae. However, even as ...

The Rubin Observatory will reveal its first images on Monday. Space.com spoke to scientists who explained why this will be a ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

V462 Lupi is in the constellation of the Lupus (the wolf), a southern sky constellation which is visible across the whole ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

Webb discovered dozens of small, powerful galaxies from 800 million years ago that likely drove cosmic reionization by ...

Scientists have discovered that something is making cosmic distance markers appear much farther away than they should be.

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a peculiar merger of two similar ring galaxies that ...