A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

Astronomers may have discovered how water originated in the universe, challenging existing theories on star formation.

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...

CU Boulder researchers found massive, dust-filled galaxies called UFOs using JWST, challenging previous galaxy formation ...

And it helps that the missions are going to a similar place: a sun-synchronous orbit around Earth’s poles ... then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. Each satellite carries ...

Explore the evolution of a groundbreaking scientific instrument that has redefined our understanding of the cosmos – from its inception in 1608 to the cutting-edge gamma-ray telescopes of today.

were restricted to objects within four billion light-years of Earth. Thanks to observations made by the venerable Hubble Space Telescope during the 1990s and 2000s, astronomers were able to ...

Both aim to unravel mysteries about the universe — one by peering far from Earth, the other by looking closer to home. The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take ...