T he Gemini North Telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, studies the skies above Maunakea, a mountain ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

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

That’s exactly what NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is built to do. Since it launched in December 2021, Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of ...

One image is a composite of 678 exposures taken over seven hours, capturing the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae – both several ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said on Wednesday, capturing rare direct images of the relatively small world in the Earth’s galactic backyard.