Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

STORY: The James Webb Space Telescope - launched to study things like the formation of the earliest galaxies - is going to be ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...

Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...

Space scientists have unveiled a cosmic bouquet in time for Valentine's Day. The new image includes data from several ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was going through preliminary tests in September 2023 when it captured images of an Einstein Ring in a nearby galaxy.

A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...