On the Webb telescope, 18 hexagonal mirrors combine to form a massive primary mirror that is 21 feet (6.5 meters) across. The ...

Astronomers have opened up the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to foreign scientists to determine how much damage the ...

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

This rare opportunity comes as astronomers warn that Asteroid 2024 YR4, recently discovered, has a 2.3 percent chance, about ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

With some creative use of the James Webb Space Telescope, Canadian researchers are now able to study two young planets as ...

YR4 which could be capable of wiping out an entire city according to scientists has now had its odds of hitting Earth ...

The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a small country have been increased to 1 in 43.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.

Candidates under 35 with master’s degrees in astrophysics, aerospace science, or earth and space exploration technology are ...

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 ...