WASHINGTON: NASA is preparing to launch its new space telescope, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140. "Shells of cosmic dust created by the interaction of binary stars appear like ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

NASA released full color James Webb Space Telescope images of the Carina Nebula, exoplanet WASP-96 b, Southern Ring Nebula, ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition in June.

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

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

Northern Michigan University is hosting the inaugural rebranding of Innovation Week, now Peak25, on Feb. 20-21. “Peak25 is the next iteration of Innovation Week,” said Bill Digneit, director of SISU: ...

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