(CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the Sombrero galaxy, revealing a perspective that looks quite different from the ...

I have an unusual affliction, and have suffered from it since I was a kid. My dad, John, was a professor of organic chemistry and also very involved in a range of other interests, one of which was ...

The Ring Nebula, a well-known celestial structure in the Milky Way, presents astronomers with a mystery: a bar-shaped cloud ...

On Oct. 13, 1773, Charles Messier spotted the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) for the first time. Writing of it a few months later, he described the object as a "very faint nebula without any stars"; it would ...

Lying just to the northeast and southwest of Alkaid, the last star in the handle of the Big Dipper, is a pair of small smudges of light visible in a pair of binoculars on a dark, moonless night. The ...