Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...

One of these previous iterations is the Hubble Space Telescope, known for its advanced capabilities but also its limitations. The Hubble is much closer to Earth than the JWST, orbiting about 320 miles ...

Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...

All the major elements of NASA’s next flagship space telescope are now under one roof as NASA says its development remains on cost and schedule.

He says the discovery came from combining observations from the Hubble and James Webb Space telescopes. “Funding new science ...

In the constellation Dorado, 49 million light-years from Earth, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 has been imaged by the NASA ...

These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...