"The infrared James Webb telescope is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope. It has 18 separate mirror segments ...
Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...
A National Academies report suggests the failure of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico may have been exacerbated by the radio telescope's powerful electromagnetic radiation.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
How the James Webb Telescope Will Reveal the Universe’s Secrets—The Breakthroughs in Cosmic Discovery!
It is a fictional representation created for illustrative purposes only. The astronomical community is abuzz with revelations ...
NASA defended the selection of two concepts for study as the agency’s first astrophysics probe-class mission amid community complaints that the two missions are not on an equal footing.
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.
Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...
The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth orbit.