The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Its color is actually caused by the effects of a 2,000 degree Fahrenheit (1,093 Celsius) atmosphere where rock-forming ...

French experts have made an unprecedented discovery with NASA's James Webb Telescope after stumbling across an exoplanet ...

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

James Webb Telescope captures its first direct exoplanet image—TWA 7b—boosting the hunt for habitable worlds beyond the Solar ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.