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The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers estimate that there could be 100 million black holes wandering around our galaxy. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Explore one of the most famous supernova remnants in our galaxy, Cassiopeia A, as seen through the powerful eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope. The detailed NIRCam image uncovers the beautiful and chaotic web of gas and dust left behind by a cosmic cataclysm. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy

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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove.

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The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation," according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit: ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin

James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Oldest Known Galaxy

A formation of radio waves looks remarkably like a treble clef in this Oct. 14, 2026, image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Researchers used Chandra to find that the Treble Clef is likely caused by an outburst from a supermassive black hole, followed by a collision of two galaxy clusters. Rea

Fly through the cosmos to the star-forming region NGC 7129. This video showcases the incredible power of the James Webb Space Telescope to see through dust and gas, unveiling the intricate and colorful details of where stars are born.

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The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared instruments (NIRCam & MIRI) have delivered imagery of interacting galaxies IC 1623, located 270 million light-years from Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus & A. Evans, N. Bartmann | edited by Ste

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of interacting elliptical and spiral galaxies known as Arp 107. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: The Ethereal by Ave Air / courtesy of Epidem

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to break down the cause of a remarkable formation of radio waves they have nicknamed the “Treble Clef” because its distinct shape strongly resembles the musical symbol. The researchers discovered the Treble Clef is likely caused by an outburst f

If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard batteries do not like extreme cold. That’s why NASA researchers are working to develop a battery that could function in the brutal cold of the Moon’s South Pole, where nighttime te

What if the Moon never existed? It's not just darkness — without the Moon, Earth's tides freeze, our axis wobbles, and seasons collapse. The Moon is the anchor of our world. In this 35-second documentary short from Beyond What If, we explore the real physics behind one of the most mind-bending "what

"Two massive stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 swing past one another, their winds collide, material compresses, and carbon-rich dust forms," according to NASA. Time-lapsed James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the system has revealed that every shell is racing away from the stars at almost 1% the speed of li

Description A lunar lander from Voyager Technologies completed nearly three months of environmental testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in late September 2026. The tests demonstrate that the spacecraft is prepared to face the harsh conditions of launch, its journey to

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 2283, which is located about 45 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) | edited by Space.com

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The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA EPIC Team | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Lee (STScI), T. Williams (Oxford), PHANGS Te