In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known affectionately as the Pillars of Creation.

The telescope may operate for 20 years, and it's off to a good start. Let's take a look at the best of Webb so far. Here, in no particular order, are 35 of the best Webb images we've seen to date. 1.

The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated Messier 57 (also known as NGC 6720), dubbed the Ring Nebula.

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits could be responsible for strange X-ray emissions in the region.

The new tarantula species was found in burrows above the ground in rock crevices and coconut husks. Photo by Acuña et al., (2025) The ustromsupasius tarantula was found at night near the entrance ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

Melnick 39, also known as Brey 78, was first identified as a WR star in the Tarantula Nebula—a large region of ionized atomic hydrogen (H II) in the Large Magellanic cloud (LMC). The star's mass ...