Day 10 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Cosmic Tornado. The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of Herbig-Haro 49/50, about 630 light-years from Earth. Energetic jets from a ...

Reflections cast by a growing number of satellites orbiting the Earth could ruin more than 95% of images taken by some space telescopes in the next decade, according to a NASA-led study. The reflected ...

Day 2 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a stellar nursery. Reflection nebula GN 04.32.8 is part of the stellar nursery called the Taurus Molecular Cloud, roughly 480 light-years from Earth.

A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is 100 million times the mass of the sun. This impressive discovery was found using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has received a record-breaking number of proposals for its fifth observation cycle. Only 8% will be accepted. Reading time 2 minutes Since launching into space in ...

Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...

Two Sydney PhD students have pulled off a remarkable space science feat from Earth—using AI-driven software to correct image blurring in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their innovation, called ...

BALTIMORE, MD — More than 650 people attended the 15th Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture in person and virtually on Saturday, Oct. 4. The lecture was held at The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Turner ...

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — while a surprise asteroid streaks through the frame. When you purchase through links ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...