NASA wants to view the Big Bang with this behemoth, so it's saying goodbye to the James Webb Telescope. The new one redefines ...

For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...

NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...

Astrophysics and space research have fascinated humanity for centuries, unlocking secrets of the universe and driving ...

James Webb notices three tiny dots, but NASA cannot explain them. These dots are red and scientists have discovered more ...

Those include Chandra for X-rays, Hubble for visible light ... images showed a colossal jet of material being launched from the space immediately outside the supermassive black hole, at speeds that ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

With the aid of the Hubble space telescope, NASA has shown us galaxies as they were many billions of years ago — and Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, has the ability to look ...

We can get a peek into that neighboring dwarf galaxy - which is only about 15% the size of our Milky Way - because of the Hubble Space Telescope. That galaxy is about 160,000 light years away.

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...