A Chinese X-ray space telescope has already made several discoveries during its initial commissioning phase. The Einstein Probe, featuring lobster-eye optics and European participation, launched ...

Though you won't get the same views with your eyes as you do with instruments like Hubble, JWST, or even a backyard telescope, there are still plenty of cool things to look at in the night sky ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a peculiar region of space that could be a “missing link” to what’s understood about the early days of space and its original stars.

This mid-infrared image of colliding galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 from the James Webb Space Telescope shows two large, luminous “eyes” at the galaxies’ cores, some 80 million light-years away.

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

NASA launching SPHEREx and PUNCH missions this weekend 04:12. A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope 'opens its eyes on the universe', taking stunning debut image of 100,000 galaxies and stars 'Staggering' first images from Vera C. Rubin Observatory show 10 million ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could ...

I worked with Schneider on the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, or STIS, a camera that flew up to Hubble on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1997 and is still operational today.