On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

Humanity's best piece of technology when it comes to exploring the universe, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has made ...

NASA and KASA will work together on a mission to an unexplored region of space. NASA and South Korea's space agency have ...

One of JWST's debut images was this cosmic landscape painting ... Like a cosmic bullseye, this trippy deep-space object is called an Einstein ring. Named for Albert Einstein, who predicted that ...

Credit: NASA / JPL / Ames Research Center / Daniel Rutter illustration The James Webb Space Telescope will soon begin ...

and posited the shape of the question mark was traced by a pair of faraway galaxies spiraling toward each other in deep space. Related: Is the James Webb Space Telescope really 'breaking' cosmology?

Astronomers already knew from the object's red color that it was quite distant, and posited the shape of the question mark was traced by a pair of faraway galaxies spiraling toward each other in deep ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

In this remarkable age, space is becoming ... process narrowband images, the technique of assigning invisible data to perceivable colors is a familiar concept. Because JWST can see outside the ...

Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has provided images ranging from distant galaxies ... within star-forming regions and the deep, early universe. Each discovery has expanded our ...