The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

Operating far past its expected life span, the telescope captures data that answer some of space’s biggest questions—and make glorious images. A colorized composite image captures the Veil Nebula.

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

Scientists leading a high-priority observing program with NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope have added two more rocky planets outside the solar system to their shortlist.

The James Webb Space Telescope provides a clear view of the central white dwarf creating the Ring Nebula in the left image. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Raghvendra Sahai et al.

"I don't know if the James Webb Space Telescope will ever cover an area of this size again, and so I think it'll be a good reference and a good data set that people will use for many years ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the smallest brown dwarfs ever seen with the potential to form planets and surrounded by mysterious molecules.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its attention to the distant planetary system in our Milky Way galaxy to gather new and unexpected insights for a team of researchers.