The European Space Agency (ESA) said Monday that its Euclid space telescope has detected a rare bright halo of light around a nearby galaxy. Known as an Einstein ring, the halo was captured in ...

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for ...

A stunning corner of the cosmos was recently revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope, and astronomers think the find will unveil more about the mysteries of both star and planet formation.

Space scientists have unveiled a cosmic bouquet in time for Valentine's Day. The new image includes data from several telescopes to create a composite containing the deepest X-ray picture ever ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring ...

Spilker was not involved in the new study, but has previously observed an Einstein ring using the James Webb Space Telescope that was described in a June 2023 study he coauthored with an ...

The most powerful space telescope ever built is peering into some of the deepest realms of the universe. The director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs the James Webb Space ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 YR4 twice over the next few months. The asteroid has a ...

In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the ...

Telescopes and Observatories Both space and ground-based telescopes are expanding our understanding of the universe: JWST (James Webb Space Telescope): JWST continues to operate and will focus on ...