Interstellar dust clouds and inky stretches of deep space can appear dull to ordinary telescopes. But to a car-size telescope 26 million miles (41.8 million kilometers) from Earth, they are alive ...
Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...
The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery. The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have used a distortion in space to reveal over 40 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years from the Milky Way — halfway back to the ...
They delved into the telescope's guts during long space walks and replaced parts that the original designers never thought they'd need to. Installation of a new power-control unit forced an ...
A newly released Hubble pic shows the galaxy LEDA 22057, where the supernova explosion occurred. The spiral galaxy's swirling ...