The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery in December 1999. Credit: NASA In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) latest extragalactic survey has revealed fainter and more distant objects than ever before, some dating back to the earliest periods of the universe. But it ...

Thanks to the collaboration of all the experts working on fixing the problem, we have images like the Hubble Deep Field, which show us just how vast our universe truly is, and how much we still have ...

How do you spot 2,500 hidden galaxies within an area of sky already thoroughly searched by Hubble for more than a decade? The James Webb Space Telescope’s new MIRI Deep Imaging Survey has precisely ...

Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and ...

When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego. What a behemoth! At the time I enjoyed using a ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Last week, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous scientific instruments that has ever existed. It’s given the world an unfathomable amount of data and allowed for never-before-imagined exploration ...