The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124), which lies about 15,000 light-years from Earth, is prominent at the center of this James Webb Space Telescope composite image,…
An asteroid is seen passing the Earth in this artistic illustration. (photo credit: PIXABAY) A massive asteroid the size of almost 69 American alligators is…
A wormhole is a hypothetical ‘shortcut’ between two regions of space. Credit: Shutterstock One of the first practical applications of the much-hyped but littl…
California startup Relativity Space is carrying out a test flight of the world's first 3D printed rocket, the Terran 1. The world's first 3D printed r…
An Olympic pool-sized asteroid could collide with Earth in 2046, though the odds are very low. (Image credit: Science Photo Library - ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI via Getty Images) …
The James Webb Space Telescope, shown in this artist’s illustration, spotted the most distant known galaxy that suddenly stopped forming stars: NORTHRUP GRUMMAN …
A gravitationally lensed view of a ring-shaped slice of the galaxy SPT0418-47, as seen by the ALMA array in Chile. Recent observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescop…
A simulation of the cosmic web showing shock waves producing radio waves (pink) as they crash through magnetic fields (blue). (Image credit: F. Vazza/D. Wittor/J. West) …
This system consists of a pair of galaxies, dubbed IC 694 and NGC 3690, which made a close pass some 700 million years ago. As a result of this interaction, the system underw…
