Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Hubble’s infrared imaging of Sh2-284 unveils stars hidden within dense gas and dust, offering insights into star formation.

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On Oct. 1, 1847, at age 29, Maria Mitchell, a studious and sturdy Quaker who, as a child, began sweeping the sky above Nantucket, Mass., with a telescope, ...

Webb's mirror, which captures light, is over 21 feet across. That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the light-collecting area.

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Dwarf planet Pluto ranks as the biggest KBO. The new Hubble breakthrough offers key insights into a KBO formation theory in which the three small, rocky bodies would not have formed as the result of ...