In this combined image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the star’s dusty outer layers are unraveling into space, glowing from the intense ...

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx, which is short ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is even more breathtaking when seen as a composite made of data from three space-based ... This image taken by the Spitzer telescope captured this region called ...

A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the most amazing images ever ... James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — A complete guide First observed in 2006 by NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope ...

Spitzer's images weren't clear enough to discern the fuzzy object located at its tip — but JWST's are. This side-by-side comparison shows a Spitzer Space Telescope image of HH 49/50 (left ...

Spitzer's images weren't clear enough to discern the fuzzy object located at its tip — but JWST's are. This side-by-side comparison shows a Spitzer Space Telescope image of HH 49/50 (left) versus a ...

The telescope's focus cannot be adjusted in space. The space agency released six images, each colored differently to represent a range of infrared wavelengths. Each image was taken by a different ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution ...

Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has ... 45 times bigger than Spitzer's for collecting light, and instruments far better at processing that captured light into useful images of the universe.