NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a close-up view of a dying star located 650 light-years away, which is ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The group building what could become the world’s most powerful optical telescope, the Giant Magellan, has a new leader. The GMTO Corporation announced Tuesday that The University of ...

When NASA launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, scientists hailed the mission as the greatest achievement of its kind in over three decades. Soon, however, scientists noticed a ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

The most powerful telescope ever built has finally reached its destination in space. NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) one month ago from French Guiana. The telescope is about the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

MoM-z14, the farthest known galaxy, offers a glimpse into the early universe as it existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang, with its light having traveled over 13 billion years to reach ...

Catching a Monster Flare in the Act On August 8, 2024, a powerful X1.3-class flare exploded from the Sun. These are among the most energetic events our star can produce. As the flare settled down, the ...