Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

"If you want to take the stairs and walkways from the entrance of the ELT's dome all the way up to the top, you need about 30 minutes." ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Using a revolutionary dark energy camera, astronomers have discovered the largest haul of "missing link" intermediate-mass ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.

The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...