The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

NASA/Bill Ingalls Launched on Christmas 2021, the Webb telescope is on a mission to observe the universe in wavelengths no human eye can see. Here are some of the most recent images from its journey.

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

The telescope may operate for 20 years, and it's off to a good start. Let's take a look at the best of Webb so far. Here, in no particular order, are the 35 best Webb images we've seen to date.

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy, the cosmic microwave background radiation that was visible only ...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

The new image, captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST ... gas and glow in red tone because of ...

Researchers took the picture using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The unprecedented image, combined with ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We decoded six of the most recent images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to see how scientists are using them to understand our origins. More from ...

Why it's so special: What are the smallest stars? A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed free-floating, Jupiter-size objects that ...