The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken us farther into space than ever before — to objects over 13 billion light-years away. In this episode, we explore the images that reveal not just galaxies, but ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...

The most famous telescope in history has reached a major milestone -- it's 35 years old. The Hubble Space Telescope launched on a grand scientific adventure to study the cosmos on April 24, 1990.

NGC 6302, known as the Butterfly Nebula, is located between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The image includes near-ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared light. At ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has captured.

The Hubble Space Telescope and a spacewalking NASA astronaut are seen in orbit around Earth during STS-61, the 1993 servicing mission to correct the observatory’s optics.