NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is situated just 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation Canes ...

James Webb Space Telescope finds exoplanets in extreme environments that could potentially be habitable.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 and was designed to be serviced by the Space Shuttle. Michael J. Massimino, former NASA astronaut and professor of Professional Practice at Columbia ...

Unlike regular cameras or even the Hubble Space Telescope, which take images of visible light, Webb is designed to see a kind of light that’s invisible to your eyes: infrared light.

Unlike regular cameras or even the Hubble Space Telescope, which take images of visible light, Webb is designed to see a kind of light that’s invisible to your eyes: infrared light.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images of the relatively small world in Earth's galactic backyard.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, TWA 7b, which is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged.

Object Details Author National Air and Space Museum Space Telescope History Project (U.S.) Smithsonian Institution Johns Hopkins University History of Science Department Subject Hubble Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first direct image of a previously unknown exoplanet — a planet that orbits outside the solar system.