"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by ...

"This data provides us with rare insight into how galaxies were transformed in the early universe." ...

It's 99 percent dark matter, a new study explains.

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide insights far more precisely than ground telescopes can manage now, as the rock is too far away for most Earth-based instruments.

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

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On February 16, 1948, the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus. [‘On This Day in ...

The Artemis II mission, which will return US astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding NASA remove the crew from the flight for safety reasons. The bigger question ...

Smartphones have long been off-limits on NASA's space missions, but that's all changing in 2026, possibly opening up a whole new world of space photography.