The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured one of the most stunning and rare cosmic sights in astronomy: a nearly ...

An Einstein ring is a circular appearance of light around a celestial object, caused by gravitational lensing. This occurs ...

Webb captured an Einstein ring formed by a distant galaxy's light bending around a closer one. This rare alignment magnifies ...

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...

Einstein rings are fascinating astronomical phenomena caused by gravitational lensing. When light from a distant object ...

New James Webb Space Telescope captures a "cosmic tornado" with imagery of the dramatic outflow from a newly formed star.

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside the ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

The Simons Observatory, a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large Aperture ...

NASA’s Hubble captures NGC 4536, a starburst galaxy in Virgo with intense star formation and glowing gas clouds.

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...