The most distant known star in the universe is no longer a faint, anonymous point of light. With the James Webb Space ...

The fifth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a close view of a distant and colorful spiral ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

The sixth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features the final act of a star near the end of its life.

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Zoom into the James Webb Space Telescope's view of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud known as NGC 346.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...