The photo at left is an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes.

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we observe the universe, we're looking at a three-dimensional space projected ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

SPHEREx stands for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer.

Uncover the insights gained from the Webb telescope about early galaxies and their role in illuminating the universe.

Each image was taken by a different detector on the telescope, NASA said. All of the images show the same area of the sky, NASA said. The colorful images are flecked with bright spots, which NASA ...