Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar ...

Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, ...

The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of ...

I t's been both a punishing and triumphant two years for the James Webb Space Telescope. Launched on Christmas Day 2021, the $10 billion observatory spent its first 30 days traveling through the ...

NASA launching SPHEREx and PUNCH missions this weekend A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of ...

On August 1, 2014, workers began construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) perched atop Cerro Pachón in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Fast forward a decade later, and the LSST—now ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly image a new exoplanet — represented by CC#1 in the image — within the three-ring debris disk surrounding the star TWA 7. A.-M ...

New NSF telescope aims to discover unknowns in space This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time.

The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope's deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from the universe's distant past, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.