Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February ...

Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 ...

The primary objective of this spacewalk is to replace critical hardware and repair the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray telescope. Listen to Story Williams and Hague will ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar monster 20 times the mass of the sun. Supernovas in the early universe ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen, with features appearing like grains and knots found in a cut of wood. "Once upon a time ...

Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation ...

An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...

Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, to find that the ancient pulse, like a cosmic flashlight, had lit up never ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece ...