Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

NASA released images of star clusters NGC 460 and NGC 456 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Hubble shows visible light, while ...

Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and ...

PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright variable star, V 372 Orionis, and its companion in this festive image in this ...

The JWST could see a 25-35% reduction in operations, and some Hubble instruments may have to fend for themselves.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

These telescopes represent the cutting edge of astronomical discovery, probing the universe across the electromagnetic ...

The telescope has the world's largest digital camera, which is the size of a small car, weighs 2,800 kg, and boasts a ...

The observatory’s software will automatically compare new images with older ones and generate an estimated 10 million alerts ...

A colossal cluster of galaxies is bending the very fabric of space—and it’s the focus of this week’s breathtaking image from ...