A languid spiral galaxy appears draped against deep space in a stunning new image from the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope. Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at ...

At the end of November, NASA’s next great telescope — the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — officially finished construction. Teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland joined the inner ...

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Day 2 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a stellar nursery. Reflection nebula GN 04.32.8 is part of the stellar nursery called the Taurus Molecular Cloud, roughly 480 light-years from Earth.

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation's NoirLab released the picture Wednesday. Snapped last month by the ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is 100 million times the mass of the sun. This impressive discovery was found using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) ...

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White ...

Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Size matters for a telescope’s image resolution. The bigger the ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a high-speed data connection. In a year and a half, Starfront Observatories in ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of my nerd hobbies is astronomy. I love looking at the stars and imagining all the various worlds that are out there. Nebulae, whole ...

The stars just got a little closer for Valley skywatchers. The International Dark Sky Discovery Center in Fountain Hills installed metro Phoenix’s largest telescope. In late September, the center’s ...