The most familiar type of telescope is the refractor. It uses two lenses, one to collect the light and form an image, called ...

The glowing, clumpy streams of material shown moving left and right in this Hubble image are the signposts of star birth. This picture, an assembly of individual images taken by NASA's Hubble Space ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...

Travel 500 million light-years into the James Webb Space Telescope's amazing view of the Cartwheel Galaxy. Credit: ESA/Webb, ...

This week, we examine the recent pager explosions in the Middle East, which have reignited concerns about further escalation ...

Astronomers developed a technique that uses a star's spectrum to chart variations in its temperature to the nearest tenth of ...

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in ...

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole starving its galaxy of gas, halting star formation in the early universe.

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...