The world's first commercial space telescope has released its first image as it begins its journey to help track nearby stars ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds ...

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which launched on Dec. 25, 2021, this anniversary marks an im ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has opened a new frontier in extragalactic astrophysics, revealing objects we didn't even suspect existed, and we're only at the beginning of this adventure." When you ...

Left: section of the MIRI image. Right: section of the NIRCam image. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of ...

For 25 years, the Hubble Telescope has been dazzling Earthlings with breathtaking images from outer space. Its latest visualization takes this to another level. Tap to watch if you're viewing on the ...

The image features one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543.

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

Nearly all images from some space telescopes in low Earth orbit could be affected by light from man-made satellites as the number of communication spacecraft surges, new research led by NASA has found ...