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

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...

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

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

"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." ...

“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 ...

At Vandenberg Space Force Base, preparations are underway for a mission to send a new NASA telescope into space.

The European Space Agency (ESA ... When a distant galaxy is observed through a telescope, the light from that galaxy may encounter another galaxy on its way to the telescope.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

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

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 ...