The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

In 2025, the Rubin Observatory in Chile will start operations and survey the southern sky every four days with a 3.2 gigapixel camera.

In recent years, Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites in our solar system. How many moons does ...

Science fiction authors like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein have inspired figures such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who, ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks. A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.

The image, using data taken by several space telescopes, shows a star cluster called NGC 602, located in a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Small Magellanic Cloud. The image ...

In the years since, researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed that the current expansion rate, called the Hubble constant, is faster than what standard cosmology models estimate ...

New measurements from the Webb telescope – Nasa’s most powerful space observatory – could help explain one of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, according to the researchers behind them.

Two years of data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have now validated the Hubble Space Telescope's earlier finding that the rate of the universe's expansion is faster - by about 8% - than ...

Webb Telescope Confirms the Universe Is Expanding at an Unexpected Rate By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more ...

The properties of the first stars, galaxies and black holes responsible for reionization are still unknown, because these objects are too far away and too dim for our present telescopes to see ...