The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a view of Lynds 483 (L483), an "actively forming star system," according to NASA.

With 3I/ATLAS slated to make its Earth tour in two days, amateur photographers and astronomers alike are scrambling to catch ...

We live in a golden age of planet discovery. Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, orbiting 1 million miles from Earth, scientists peered closely at the planet AF Lep b, an extremely young ...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Of all the objects that you can view through a telescope, some of the most stunning to behold are the planets in our solar system, and the galaxies that lie far beyond it. But if you want to see more ...

Two new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed. Both images include objects from more than 13 billion years ago, and one offers a much ...

Thousands of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, are in this 2022 photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. [Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI] BY The Conversation Curious Kids is a series for ...

A new generation of extremely large telescopes requires fresh approaches to correct for the blurring effects caused by the Earth’s atmosphere, as Richard de Grijs, one of an international team of ...

Whenever news of a rare celestial event makes the headlines - be it a passing comet, meteor shower or a parade of planets - it makes one wish for two things: a telescope and a pitch-black garden to ...

Smartphone-enabled telescopes offer convenient stargazing and image sharing. Telescope choice depends on experience level and desired features. Aperture size impacts image detail; larger is generally ...

We live in a golden age of planet discovery. Astronomers are using modern telescopes, both on Earth and in space, to find or zoom in on planets well beyond our solar system, called exoplanets. Some ...