When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Pillars of Creation ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

The 11-inch, 1845 refracting Merz und Mahler Telescope. (Image provided) Cincinnati historian and world traveler Bonnie Speeg sent a note this past week: “I just emailed you a PDF of the ...

Explore six breathtaking images of distant galaxies captured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. These stunning visuals showcase the beauty, complexity and wonder of our universe like never before.

Hubble Telescope Still Hard at Work Snapping Photos Like This Star-Packed ‘Triangulum Galaxy’ Scientists Have Spotted a ‘Bejeweled Ring’ in Space – Revealing a Sparkling Quasar ...

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 map extends through roughly 98% of all cosmic time, or 13.5 billion of the universe's 13.8 billion years. That (and its mind-boggling quantity of galaxies) means Webb's map dwarfs Hubble's ...

Global resolution: Radio telescope network captures image of distant black hole jet by Chalmers University of Technology edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13. ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that Uranus' largest moons are gathering dust — literally. Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun and home to 28 known moons, is well known for ...