A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 stunning backdrop. FAA closes ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a ...

According to an article published by NASA on Wednesday, March 26, the Webb telescope “captured bright auroral activity on Neptune” for the very first time in June 2023. Despite “successful ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its Canadian and European space agency counterparts, has finally captured clear images of these magnificent Neptunian light shows.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks ...

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But such collisions are so rare that enormous volumes of target material are needed to create a neutrino telescope. What’s more, astronomers need to place these instruments deep underground or ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe the night sky in more detail. The best telescopes unlock the wonders of the night sky right from your backyard and beyond. Bring the Moon and planets into ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and Joseph Olmsted (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists study a strange mass about 20 light-years from Earth. Traveling unpredictably through the ...

Credit: J. Beltrán/ESO Work began on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) more than a decade ago, and it's still about three years away from its ribbon-cutting ceremony. But if scientists are ...