Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost biological, like tentacles drifting through water.

You probably imagine NASA hunting for habitable planets, blue worlds, and earth-like atmospheres. Especially signs of life.

Scientists using a trio of some of the world’s most powerful observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s Euclid, and the Subaru Telescope, have pulled back the curtain on a ghost galaxy that is ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Dark matter doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light. It’s invisible but supposedly makes up 85% of the universe’s mass. Because it’s so abundant, astronomers believe it should explain many unsolved ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxies are named for the long, tentacle-like streams ...

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As children, many of us remember lying on terraces or open fields, trying to count stars. One, two, three and then losing ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured.Jellyfish ...

Every star you see at night broadcasts its temperature through color, yet one shade sits permanently off the menu. The visible spectrum runs from deep red through orange, yellow, white, and blue, each ...

Fresh excitement is building around The Super Mario Galaxy Movie as new character posters spotlight fan favorites like Yoshi and Bowser Jr. The latest promotional drop offers a clearer peek at the ...

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...