A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the Hubble Space Telescope's line of sight.

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched into orbit in April 1990. The Sombrero Galaxy is a fan-favorite of ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the sun 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope. Launched in 2021, it has enabled researchers to analyse the atmospheres of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected evidence of life on a planet trillions of miles from Earth, according to a report released Wednesday by a Cambridge University research team ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as “fuzzy ...

(Another space telescope, Fermi, replaced it in 2008.) But Spitzer and Chandra are still up—way up—and running, unlocking secrets of the universe and surpassing the hopes of the people who ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an ...

like the Mars Sample Return mission and the Roman Space Telescope," they jointly wrote in a statement. "I am horrified by the reports that the Trump White House wants to defund the MSR mission ...

In this Hubble Space Telescope image, twinkling group of stars is seen at the center. NGC 1858: Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars ...