A favorite celestial target is getting the James Webb Space Telescope treatment. The Horsehead Nebula, a cosmic masterpiece about 1,300 light-years away from Earth in space, got its name from a ...

NASA released high-resolution images of the Horsehead Nebula that were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on Monday. The telescope produced sharp infrared images of the “horse’s mane," or ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way, and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. Hubble was ...