Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

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

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

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...

The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe this month's full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the total lunar eclipse in March. The best telescopes unlock the wonders ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He ...

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

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...