Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of ... "We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don’t see, look like this on the inside," he said.

Originally known as the "Next Generation Space Telescope," the telescope was somewhat controversially named after James E. Webb, one of NASA's early administrators. Webb ran NASA from 1961 to 1968 ...

The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery. The most powerful telescope to be launched ...

Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments. Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow ...

New measurements from the Webb telescope – Nasa’s most powerful space observatory – could help explain one of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, according to the researchers behind them.

As with our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... jets of gas colliding together at near light speed. The Webb telescope, the most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope that humanity has ever created, enabling scientists to gaze further into the universe than ever before.