Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

One of the great mysteries that humanity has been pursuing since time immemorial is whether there is life beyond our planetary frontier. Many people are tirelessly investigating th ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.