The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the most distant single star found yet. It took the light from the star 12.9 billion light years to reach Earth. Learn how it was discovered. Credit; ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

HH 30, a fascinating Herbig-Haro object, serves as a cosmic laboratory for studying star formation and planetary evolution.

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which ...

The telescope will be used to observe the radio sky at frequencies ... and Stephanie Wilson, a veteran of three space shuttle flights, were pulled from the mission. This is Hague’s third launch, ...

On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the first space shuttle mission entirely dedicated to the Department of Defense (DOD).

Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several quasars, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed that one of the quasar host galaxies has an unexpected spiral shape. This ...

“One of Hubble’s lasting achievements will be how it showed the public the wonders of the universe,” Kenneth Sembach, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told National ...