Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has been one of humanity's most incredible tools for unlocking the secrets of the universe. For ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Recently two new observatories — NASA's SPHEREx and the Vera C Rubin Observatory — released their first images.

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in a long time. For Big Picture enthusiasts like myself, such an ...

Astronomers solve mystery of strange bright burst in space After a year of research and analysis, experts have finally pinned down the source of the signal ...

NASA's James Webb space telescope made a milestone achievement after it may have discovered its first exoplanet. Exoplanets are planets located outside our solar system.

While the new study marks the first time the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new exoplanet through direct imaging, the observatory confirmed an earlier discovery of a potential ...

Now, the technology inside the telescope has allowed for the discovery of what appears to be an undiscovered planet. The James Webb Telescope – the largest ever to launch into space – is designed to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a suspected exoplanet's thermal glow. This exoplanet, dubbed TWA 7b, sits about 52 times farther from its star than Earth is from the sun. That places it right ...