The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Much like the northern and southern lights on Earth, auroras occur when charged solar particles collide with a planet’s ...

Professor Asad Madni the Hubble Space Telescope (University of California/PA) A professor who created a crucial part of the Hubble Space Telescope has been elected an honorary fellow of the Royal ...

A changing understanding of dark energy may provide a new answer European telescope studying the dark universe unveils new images of distant ... successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb ...

A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles. Launched in 2021 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb observed the scene in the infrared. NASA said in a statement it was ...