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

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest ...

The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Its color is actually caused by the effects of a 2,000 degree Fahrenheit (1,093 Celsius) atmosphere where rock-forming ...

French experts have made an unprecedented discovery with NASA's James Webb Telescope after stumbling across an exoplanet ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. But today, Discovery rests ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

The five space shuttle fleet—Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour — launched satellites, were ...