A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which ...

just as NASA space shuttle astronauts did with Hubble, according to early designs. The space telescope will have four primary instruments, including a super-sensitive coronagraph that can detect ...

The bright reflection is from the end of the canister holding the folded solar array that astronauts Linnehan and John M.

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

The Hubble Space Telescope was the first to discover HH 30. Now, Webb, the most powerful instrument of its kind ever put into orbit, has investigated the stellar formation in unprecedented detail.

High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images offer a captivating view of how galaxies interact and evolve over time. The complex gravitational forces between these galaxies may lead to mergers ...