On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

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

Newly discovered multi-wavelength view of a stellar eruption on a young Sun-like star is changing how we think about life's ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

They used Hubble Space Telescope and Webb images to confirm it. The star was roughly 100,000 times brighter than the sun, yet appeared more than 100 times less luminous than it should have because of ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the existence of a companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

Impressively, capturing an image of Betelbuddy was only the start of the discoveries. The researchers had anticipated the ...