On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look inside a vibrant and glittering cluster of newborn stars drifting in the cosmos — some nearly eight times hotter than the sun.

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

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

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, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists took an infrared image of a young star cluster called Pismis 24, a spot ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just unveiled a new image of the Butterfly Nebula, and it isn’t just beautiful—it ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

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

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...