The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog ...

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

The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...

The observatory at the institute building is located in the dome of the Viktor-Franz-Hess-Building, which was already built in February 1986. In 1992 we started the planning work and the telescope ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The composite image ...

Another stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a plume of warm dust and gas formed by jets from a baby star.

Astronomers discover a spiral galaxy with 6 million light-year jets, raising concerns about the Milky Way's potential for ...

The unpredictable turn of events that led to the NASA duo being stuck in space is eerily similar to this 2013 sci-fi thriller ...

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