The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

The Webb telescope provides a detailed view of carbon dust production in the Wolf-Rayet 140 binary star system. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA ... with accumulations forming delicate clouds as vast as our ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can't exactly do.

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called ... moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a ...

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

(The institute operates major telescopes for NASA, like Webb and the Hubble Space Telescope.) The budget shortfall would begin in October 2025, the start of the federal fiscal year. The telescope ...

Astronomers warn that proposed changes to the space observatory's operational budget could decrease the amount of ...

This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as ...

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

Jan. 21, 2025 — Astronomers previously thought all FRBs were generated by magnetars formed through the explosions of very young, massive stars. But new FRB is pinpointed to the outskirts of 11.3 ...

The recent geomagnetic storm watch NOAA issued is rated as a G1. Auroras occur when solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field. The charged particles from the sun collide with gases in the ...