The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with ...

A massive star on the distant outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy is seen blowing a powerful cosmic blowtorch in a new image ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a planet-forming disk within the Taurus star-forming region.

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look inside a vibrant and glittering cluster of newborn stars ...

A new observatory with a powerful telescope has just opened in South Wairarapa.

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...