The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

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

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

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

The ELT could identify biosignatures on planets in our solar system as well as orbiting Proxima Centauri within hours.

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from ... With its 2.4-meter mirror and sensitive instruments, Hubble's view of the SMC is far more detailed and vivid than what humans ...

A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

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