Radio telescopes help scientists map molecules in space and uncover where and how stars form

You may have heard the phrase "we are made of star-stuff." This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact ...

Watch this amazing James Webb 4K space telescope view of the Cosmic Cliffs

Pan across the James Webb Space Telescope's view of the Cosmic Cliffs, "a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within the star cluster NGC 3324," according to NASA/ESA. NGC 3324 is within ...

Saturn's moon Titan captured by the James Webb Space Telescope

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

James Webb Space Telescope Discovers New Type Of Star Powered By Black Holes Instead Of Fusion

Freshly spotted, but probably already dead.

How The James Webb Telescope Shows Us What The Dawn Of A New Solar System Looks Like

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

Bright planets can blind the Webb telescope. A fix is coming.

Because the planets in our solar system are so bright, they flood the telescope's sensors with more light than they can ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope To Launch This Month — Nine Months Ahead Of Schedule

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches Aug. 30 aboard Falcon Heavy to map billions of galaxies, hunt exoplanets and ...
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NASA’s new dark-energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any ...

NASA's bid to save a prized space telescope takes an alarming turn

NASA's highly-anticipated mission to save the Swift Observatory from doom is now fighting for its own survival. Here's the ...

Hubble vs Roman: How NASA's new space telescope will change our view of the universe

Hubble is built to study individual objects or relatively small regions of the sky in great detail. Roman, meanwhile, will ...

Telescope Spots Two Black Holes on the Cusp of Merging

New images from the James Webb telescope show a galaxy with a trio of supermassive black holes. Two of them appear to be locked in a tight tango.

Tests of a New Telescope Captured the Faint Aftermath of a Star’s Death

During early calibration tests, the MOTHRA telescope’s array of lenses, which will soon number 1,140, captured stellar debris dissolving into space around the Helix Nebula.