The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Modern space telescopes like Hubble or the James Webb Space Telescope are not built to catch these events. Even specialized tools like NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can only see parts ...

Pan across the James Webb Space Telescope's view of the Cosmic Cliffs, "a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within the star cluster NGC 3324," according to NASA/ESA.

While JAXA's Suzaku X-ray telescope came to the end of its scientific mission in 2015, XMM-Newton remains operational more than a quarter of a century since its launch; a testament to its designers ...

Webb discovered dozens of small, powerful galaxies from 800 million years ago that likely drove cosmic reionization by emitting strong ultraviolet radiation. Astronomers using data from NASA ’s James ...

In just 15 years' time, the European Space Agency hopes humans will live in huge 'space oases' on Mars - luxury indoor habitats made of heat-reflective material that grow their own food.

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have discovered a vast 23 million light-year-wide tendril connecting galactic clusters and containing much of the universe's missing matter.

The universe keeps hiding most of its mass, yet it leaves telltale fingerprints. Astronomers are about to read them with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2027. Roman’s ...

What it looks like when the Laser Guide Star (LGS) is launched from the VLT’s 8.2-metre Yepun Telescope and aims at the center of our galaxy, in the heart of the brightest part of the Milky Way.

Using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, the team created an incredibly detailed image of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253).

In November 2021, Elijah Mullens was staffing a pre-launch party for the James Webb Space Telescope at a local planetarium near his home in Florida. Not yet accepted to graduate school, he was ...