Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope went back to the same place where the Hubble Telescope took its famous picture called the Ultra Deep Field. JWST’s new picture shows galaxies from different times by ...

The first images from a new telescope in Chile were released this week, featuring extraordinarily detailed scenes from deep space. And more are expected to follow the debut series from the ...

Breathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly discovered asteroids were revealed Monday in the first deep space images ...

A very rare and beautiful occurrence of two galaxies has again made headlines with the re-emergence of a picture taken by the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has captured its first images of the night sky and promises to provide a "firehose" of data to researchers over the coming decade. Credit: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since it launched in December 2021, Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of ...

This is the first time humans have laid eyes on these deep space objects.

Not too long ago the thought of having a capable home observatory in your own back garden seemed impossible, but now it is. You can see into the depths of the cosmos from the comfort of your own home.

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo Cluster, a massive collection of galaxies in the Virgo constellation, was ...