New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Data from the 1990s' Hubble Space Telescope launch saw estimates ranging from 7 billion to 20 billion years. It was only later that a consensus was reached, placing the age at 13.8 billion years.

A NASA-backed project using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released more than 1.5 TB of data for open science, offering the largest view deep into the universe available ...

Thanks to observations made by the venerable Hubble Space Telescope during the 1990s and 2000s, astronomers were able to observe and measure the redshift of some of the most distant objects in the ...

Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another. The research team studied the four largest moons of the ice giant Uranus, the ...

Part of the first image Hubble made (above right) is about 50 percent sharper than an image of the same area of space taken with a ground-based telescope (above left). Photograph by NASA/ESA ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...