The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain ...

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post ...

However, based on a new image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, "astronomers may have to rename it the visor galaxy," reports Mashable. That's because the latest photo looks "more like a ...

New U.S. Postal Service stamps released last week feature images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ... "We have three slices taken at three different times, which will allow us to study the true ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more ... and gas that has fueled it to create new stars. A collision could also explain why ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided unprecedented details about the Andromeda galaxy's history and characteristics.

In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space telescope epic. It's an eggshell white, conical probe named SPHEREx, which (get ready for a mouthful) stands for ...

A stunning new photo captures the moon and Saturn engaged in a cosmic game of ... Astronomer Gianluca Masi shared a composite photo taken during the event using the Virtual Telescope Project in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space telescope epic. It ...

Its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, is scheduled for launch in 2013. The new instrument will orbit much farther from Earth (940,000 miles/1.5 million kilometers)—the better to peer ...