More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

NASA doesn't just point a telescope at space and snap a photo. JWST's data needs to be translated from infrared to visible light — then it becomes an image.

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker ...

Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, ...

The photos were taken by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera located at the Vera C Rubin observatory in the ...

The world’s most powerful digital camera has taken its first photos, and they reveal the cosmos in stunning detail. Shared as ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13. ...

Trouble with one of the Hubble Space Telescope's three remaining gyroscopes, critical for aiming and locking onto targets, has prompted mission managers to switch to a backup control mode that ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb's First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is ...

Astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at a common kind of planet that's bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. What they saw wasn't what they expected.

China is preparing to launch a space telescope that, Chinese researchers claim, will surpass the capabilities of NASA's Hubble telescope, according to a report on LiveScience. The spacecraft ...