A groundbreaking study using the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a truly astonishing discovery about our universe: it may ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

For space fans, June has something extra to enjoy, as NASA recently released “Cosmic Dawn,” a new “intimate access” documentary all about designing and assembling the James Webb Space Telescope.

The space telescope is able to detect more than 100 colors in both optical and near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful investigatory tool, according ...

The upcoming launch of NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope should let astronomers see what some of the universe's first stars and galaxies looked like soon after the Big Bang.

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...