“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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, which is the JWST is the largest and space telescope ever built, is expected to help NASA and ...

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the most detailed view of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 2.6 per cent chance of hitting Earth on 22 December, 2032, making it the biggest ...

On a crisp January evening, as the International Space Station (ISS) streaked across the sky at 17,500 miles per hour, ...

space telescope resting in the airtight, climate-controlled clean-room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt ...

Astronomers are working to reduce the uncertainty about the asteroid's orbit and rule out any impact risk, but it will fade ...

NASA has upgraded the odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032. The space rock, named asteroid 2024 YR4, now has a 3.1 per ...

With a width of around 100 metres, the asteroid could cause city-scale catastrophic damage. NASA estimates the rock weighs ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...