In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

we present one of astronomy's most iconic images: The Pillars of Creation, located in the Eagle Nebula. This image was captured in 1995 by the the Hubble Space Telescope. The pillars are each a ...

Definition: Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope named after renowned astronomer Edwin Hubble. It was launched in ... After the launch of the telescope, the first fewer images it returned ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

But for the first time, a ring of light has been revealed ... Now, researchers have made an in-depth study of the Euclid images showcasing details of the Einstein ring, published Monday in the ...

and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of ...