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

Its age is estimated to be around 13 billion years, almost three times as old as the solar system. It orbits a binary system ...

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

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

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

Webb Telescope captures stunning new images of HH 30, revealing a dynamic protoplanetary disc where planets form.

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...