How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

The assembly of the telescope ramped up this autumn, with 600 workers aiming to get everything integrated and tested by late ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is much larger than the Hubble and instead of orbiting the Earth, operates from a stationary ...

Mars, once a planet abundant with water, now lies as a barren, arid expanse. Its surface features reveal a history where ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Roman's real future surveys will enable a deep dive into ... survey like it - the Hubble Space Telescope's COSMOS survey - ...

Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace ...

"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...