One of the main objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was to measure the size and age of the Universe, ...

NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes observe explosive star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud's NGC 460 and NGC 456 clusters.

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have captured amazing views of spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Credit: ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. The image uses ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

Scientists have proposed Earth is in the middle of a huge void in space, potentially resolving the cosmic mystery known as ...