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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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.

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 ...

A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope. In a giant “clean room” in Maryland, engineers are assembling the Roman telescope, aiming for launch no later than 2027.

The cone-shaped Spherex — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view.