A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured one of the most stunning and rare cosmic sights in astronomy: a nearly ...

When it’s finished, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the most powerful optical telescope ever, will search for distant Earth-like planets and expand our understanding of the cosmos.

ESA's Euclid mission is exploring the "dark universe." The space telescope's latest images offer fascinating new insights.

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

Herbig-Haro 49/50, aka the 'Cosmic Tornado', as seen by Spitzer in January 2006. The source of the 'tornado', a Class 1 ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles ... Einstein rings created by gravitational lensing are not just cosmic eye candy. This ring was captured during the Strong ...