NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Pillars of Creation ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. A hydroxyl megamaser is a ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic microwave background, it is imperceptible to the human eye. But if scientists can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. It's golden mirror is seen atop its silvery sunshield floating in space.

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

In science, it’s often said that the data doesn’t care what you think. That is especially true when it comes to sophisticated new tools like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). So it hasn’t been a ...

Although the space missions that involve humans (read the Artemis program) steal the spotlight these days, it is the ones that have nothing to do with astronauts that will probably seriously advance ...

The telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical experimentation. It combined a series of lenses and mirrors to collect and magnify light, allowing the user to see far away ...

While headlines around the world claimed that ancient galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much ...

In the summer of 1967, a 24-year-old PhD student at the University of Cambridge noticed something unusual hidden within ...