It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

Five Year of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the ...

Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon called an "Einstein ring." It's not an actual ...

For 34 years, the Hubble Telescope has been orbiting space, each day sending new information back to Earth. Now, the telescope is showing a new multiwavelength galaxy view for the first time. NASA ...

Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...

Contrary to claims that 3I/ATLAS is no longer from Earth, space experts claim that the Manhattan-sized comet can now be captured by anyone with basic viewing equipment. Astronomer Yicheng Zhang ...

The Rubin Observatory is located on Cerro Pachón in the Andes Mountains in Chile.

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Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on ...

Thousands of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, are in this 2022 photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. [Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI] BY The Conversation Curious Kids is a series for ...

The telescope is a collaboration between institutions representing five countries. Giant Magellan Telescope SHARE If you thought the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was impressive, think again. With ...

The outline of a nebula bat formed from glowing interstellar clouds | Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Astronomers have captured the glowing "wings" of a vast nebula shaped like a bat, unfurling in ...