The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Last week the Rubin Observatory released the first data from a newly commissioned telescope. Astronomers, engineers and ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based telescope currently under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...