Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...

Benesse signaled its commitment to the region in 2016, when it moved its ¥3 million Benesse Prize from its home at the Venice ...

Astronomers have identified Zhúlóng, a spiral galaxy existing 12.8 billion years ago, using the James Webb Space Telescope. This discovery challenges existing galaxy formation theories ...

What might look like sparkling wisps of candy floss, or cotton candy, are dusty gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy, as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The pink ...

NASA engineers have successfully completed testing on one half of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a key step in making sure this future observatory will perform as expected once it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan, capturing the first evidence of cloud formation in this moon's northern hemisphere. Titan is the ...

is a painting of the 13-ton NASA Hubble Space Telescope. NASA's space shuttle Discovery, in this painting, depicts the $2 billion observatory's deployment at 330 nautical mile altitude.

Jupiter's dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal. The solar system's largest planet displays striking ...

Astronomical observations with the James Webb Space Telescope support the hypothesis that the first pronounced structures in our Universe may have formed much earlier than previously assumed.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting Earth for 35 years and continues to provide remarkable images of space. Hubble has led to major breakthroughs in astronomy. It has enabled us to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a view of Lynds 483 (L483), an "actively forming star system," according to NASA. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) | edited by ...

Travel to James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam and MIRI instrument views of protostar L1527. The protostar is about 100,000 years old. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris ...