NASA Webb unveils Firefly Sparkle galaxy, 600M years post-Big Bang. Firefly Sparkle mirrors Milky Way's early development. Rare gravitational lensing aids in high-resolution discovery.

Only five players in NBA history have been named Most Valuable Player four or more times: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (6), Bill ...

A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that ...

Messier 83 was discovered in 1752, but it wasn't realized that it's actually a galaxy outside the Milky Way until Edwin ...

Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

An image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) shows a striking celestial sight: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, a gorgeous face-on galaxy that is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies ...

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory will lend insight into what happened after the Big Bang, measure the glow of galaxies near and far ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...

Astronomer Dr Lamia Mowla, Assistant Professor at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and Associate Member of the Center for ...

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Jubett ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...