In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Take a deep breath: the universe is not just big it’s mind-bogglingly, practically scandalously huge. And it’s growing. A ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The observatory will continue the legacy of its ...

Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...

Astronomers are using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to look for signs of atmospheres on exoplanets orbiting close to red dwarf stars.

Many deep field views are available to astronomers now. A more recent one from JWST had 50,000 sources, most of them galaxies, some of which were at an even greater distance (and so much younger ...

Object Details Manufactured for NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, HST Flight Systems and Servicing Project Summary This is the original, flown Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) that was installed ...

Hubble launched in 1990 with five primary instruments designed to capture images from space and transmit them back to Earth. 1. Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) This instrument was composed ...