On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...

Kedarnath Temple, over 1,200 years old, defies science with its resilience. From surviving glaciers to the 2013 floods, its ...

James Webb recently peered at an alien world that could harbor alien life. What impact would such a seismic discovery have on ...

"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...

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

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

New U.S. Postal Service stamps released last week feature images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Through the lens of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, scientists are zeroing in on the Hubble Constant, a vital ...

Astrophysics and space research have fascinated humanity for centuries, unlocking secrets of the universe and driving ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.