Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

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

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Modern astronomical observatories send us an enormous amount of data, which is generally examined and shared in the form of ...

Beauty Of Tarantula Nebula This nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most active star-forming regions, filled ...

This image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is from the Frontier Fields project, using natural gravitational lenses and ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic molecules.

In 2019, the Hubble team released this image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula to celebrate the telescope's 29th anniversary. It is also among the most massive and luminous X-ray sources in ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...