Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

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