A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

Brown says he couldn't have asked for a better telescope to hunt his celestial quarry. "If you were to hand me a big wad of cash and say, 'Go build a telescope to go either find this Planet 9 or find ...

Caldwell 99 is a dark nebula — a thick cloud of space dust so dense that it blocks all visible light from the stars and objects lying behind it. The star V830 Orionis illuminates the surrounding cloud ...

Here’s how it works. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) just released a stunning image of the NGC 346 star cluster from the Hubble Space Telescope — but it isn't quite "new." Rather ...

This photo taken in December 2024 shows "Three Gorges Antarctic Eye," a 3.2-metre aperture radio/millimetre-wave telescope, at China's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica. [Photo/China Three Gorges ...

This image provided by the European Space Agency on Wednesday, captured by NASA's Webb telescope, shows the asteroid 2024 YR4. European Space Agency Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...

What did Gaia achieve? And perhaps most importantly, why was it my favourite space telescope? Gaia was retired for a simple reason: after more than 11 years in space, it ran out of the cold gas ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope. This rare cosmic overlap forms a swirling ...

Pagan (STScI), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) An ancient galactic lighthouse is shining through the fog of the early universe, new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal. Researchers ...

The moon will partially cover the sun, with up to 50% visibility in certain regions. Modern smart telescopes like the Seestar S30 offer easy ways to capture high-quality images using smartphones ...

While sub-Neptunes are common in the Milky Way, they do not exist in our solar system. Enaiposha stands out due to the presence of hazes and aerosols that make atmospheric analysis difficult, ...