This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

To do that, humans have built some of the most spectacular astronomical observatories around the world, capable of peering into the vast void of space and capturing images that astound. The James Webb ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...

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

We're back! A long-time reader and subscriber recently mentioned in the Ars Forums that they "kind of" missed the Daily Telescope posts that I used to write in 2023 and 2024. Although I would have ...

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

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...