A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing ...

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth’s ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

NASA has put its recently launched SPHEREx space telescope into operation. The scientific mission is due to begin at the end ...

Elon Musk faces a conflict of interest in supporting a space telescope helpful to SpaceX but attacking programs that benefit ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted at one point to have a 3% chance of smacking Earth in 2032.