As the nights get longer, it is a perfect time to buy a telescope - and with Amazon's two-day Big Deal sale now in its final day of sales, this is a great time to find the best scope for exploring the ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

Left: section of the MIRI image. Right: section of the NIRCam image. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of ...

Transparent telescope brings 'stunning deep-sky details' closer to home While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French smart ...

Scientists armed with the immense observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected faint traces of fluorescent flatulence leaking out from the dwarf planet Makemake, which lurks ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the James Webb Space Telescope. Both are multi-billion-dollar international ...

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 ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties ...

NGC 2775 has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, ...

The algorithm models the blurring incurred by Earth's atmosphere and counteracts it, producing sharp and clear images. A new algorithm capable of transforming ground-based telescope images by removing ...

An illustration of a habitable zone planet orbiting the star called TRAPPIST – credit NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI) One of the major things that the mightily impressive James Webb Space Telescope ...