A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question.

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

New images from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory suggest that the galaxy, known as NGC 3640, may soon merge with a smaller galactic ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

CHILLING new telescope photos of the “city killer” asteroid hurtling towards earth at 30,000mph have been released. The ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

For centuries, telescopes have relied oncurved glass lenses to bend light and bring the cosmos into focus. While effective, ...

A new breakthrough in cosmic mapping has unveiled the structure of a colossal filament, part of the vast cosmic web that ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But ...

Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so ...

Scientists aim to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the universe using NASA's newest space telescope, ...