NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveiled a stunning new image from the farthest reaches of space. This groundbreaking image ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

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

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Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Four full-sky surveys are planned over two years, as the telescope circles the globe from pole to pole 400 miles (650 ...

If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. Each satellite carries a camera, which acts like a synchronized, single, virtual instrument with ...

That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the light-collecting area. Capturing more light allows Webb to see more distant ...

The universe can be a beautiful but violent place. A new image from the Webb space telescope captures an epic battle between two stars as they launch jets of material toward one another ...

The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a hundred colors that are invisible to the human eye. Accompanying the telescope ...

If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. PUNCH is a constellation of four small suitcase-size spacecraft that will spend the next two ...