"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

NASA wants to view the Big Bang with this behemoth, so it's saying goodbye to the James Webb Telescope. The new one redefines ...

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...