Two views of a portion of the WLM galaxy, one taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (left), the second by its James Webb Space Telescope. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made the Pillars of ... A new, near-infrared-light view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, at right, helps us peer through more of the dust in this star ...

The first pictures from ... of 40 kilograms. For comparison, the Hubble mirror is only 2.4 meters (21 feet and four inches) in diameter. Thanks to this, "James Webb" will be, according to various ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR ...

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Birthed from the minds of astronomers Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason, the Hubble ...

The Hubble Space Telescope 's $9.7 billion successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, has finally come together after a delays and cost overruns. The two halves of the next-generation space ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.