The shot shows IC 438, which lies about 130 million light-years from Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Just when we think we ...
Astronomers have found something strange in the James Webb Space Telescope's first images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it hurtles toward our sun, according to a new study. The telescope's initial ...
Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is suffering the kinds of aches and pains that can come with being old, and NASA officials say they're shifting into a new way of pointing the telescope in order to work ...
The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of the ...
Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped. When you purchase ...
On Friday, to mark the second anniversary of operations of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA released a breathtaking new cosmic image of two galaxies merging together. The telescope, which launched ...
NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of a planet outside of our solar system, which is the first time it has accomplished such a feat. This is a very big deal because ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing ...