Space Telescope with visible-light data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The resulting wavelength coverage, from 0.4 to 5 microns, reveals a vivid landscape of galaxies whose colors give clues to ...

We’re not sure how the Guardians of the Galaxy would feel if their Baby Groot sappling matured into a Christmas tree, but we’d sure be happy with it. Sadly, the Groot head is one-of-a-kind.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have been touted as a successor to Hubble, but the old-timer still has some life left in it yet. These two iconic instruments have now teamed up to take a ...

Galaxies outlive trees by billions of years, making their growth impossible to see. But like biologists reading tree rings, astronomers can read the rings in a galaxy's disk to unravel its past. Using ...

Scientists have discovered 14 new transient objects during their time-lapse study of galaxy cluster MACS0416 -- located about 4.3 billion light years from Earth -- which they've dubbed as the ...

The 135-foot-tall spires that form the distinctive backdrop of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland were each painstakingly created by artisans from hand-crafted rock work designed to evoke the ...

Watching a tree grow might be more frustrating than waiting for a pot to boil, but luckily for biologists, there are tree rings. Beginning at a tree trunk’s dense core and moving out to the soft bark, ...