The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...

The United States Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring stellar images beamed back to Earth by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The two new stamps were officially issued on ...

Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble ... telescope’s size let it make images of very faint objects, and its high-quality mirror ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically ... The telescope’s size let it make images of very faint objects, and its high-quality mirror allowed it to ...

This is the reason why the relatively small Hubble telescope performed so well compared to ... to the intended final shape when exposed to the cold of space (-233°C/-388°F). Each mirror would ...