The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on ...

“The instrument is, so to speak, the heart of the solar telescope, which is now finally beating at its final destination,” ...

After passing all the necessary checks and calibrations, NASA says its SPHEREx space observatory is ready to embark on its ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...