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

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Two new stamps issued this month feature iconic images captured by Webb, one of them showing a ... to capture extraordinary snapshots of deep space brimming with incredible scientific data to ...

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

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began sending home its first deep-space images, astrophysicists knew that its suite of instruments would glimpse never-before-seen cosmological objects.

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

But, its most distinctive feature is the dark, starry gap called a “superbubble,” visible in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Star jets: This striking image features a relatively rare ...

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

In popular culture, heaven is depicted with pearly gates, fluffy clouds and bright, celestial lights. So what actually is ...

Just as modern telescopes reveal the hidden structure of nebulae and star clusters, understanding the physics behind twilight ...