The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The composite image makes it look like the overflow of ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

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

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

The telescope launched in 2023 ... has previously released images of a range of strange galaxies, colorful nebulas and shining stars. But the first release of astronomical data is "a new milestone ...