Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

Related: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... that most of the gas in the universe was somewhere between opaque and transparent. But directly around the galaxies, everything was clear.

Nearly 30 years ago, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the first image of the Pillars of Creation — the iconic star nursery featuring thick pillars of gas and dust. Now, the new James Webb ...

NASA’s Webb telescope is pulling back the shroud on ... burning away the cosmic haze and making things transparent—a key time known as reionization. As the fog lifted, pockets of stars merged ...

The new images capture light that travelled for more than 13 billion years to reach the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT ... enabling space to become transparent. This faint afterglow marks ...

Hubble was limited by its wavelength range and couldn’t see through the dust like Webb. Already the telescope has discovered the farthest confirmed galaxy from about 350 million years after the ...

The new infrared image was taken with the VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. In the infrared, the dust that obscures many stars becomes nearly transparent, revealing a whole host ...

Sponsor Message Space telescopes have traditionally been named ... At the time, some astronomers were unhappy that NASA was not more transparent about how officials came to that decision.

It won't be long now before that happens, though, as a series of truly impressive telescopes are being planned with this exact goal in mind. One of these telescopes is called the Large UV/Optical ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications ...