The James Webb Space Telescope has been helping scientists explore the cosmos for years now, but there are still plenty of ...

The Hubble telescope peered into small patches of sky, revealing thousands of galaxies that our human eyes can’t see. Using a different technique, SPHEREx will unveil the light of hidden galaxies on a ...

Three years into its cosmic mission, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope continues to dazzle and inspire awe. Since July 2022, the advanced observatory has scoured the cosmos in otherwise invisible ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station to dazzling new ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to detect up to 50 interstellar visitors in the coming years, giving a boost to astronomy ...

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

The 2025 NASA budget points to the beginning of the end for one of the agency’s longest-living space telescopes. Just a few months shy of turning 25, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may soon be no ...

Our planet is surrounded by a halo of ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye, a celestial phenomenon that scientists have been trying to understand for over half a century. This enigmatic glow, ...

To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it to deploy and extend a critical part of the observatory known as the Deployable Tower ...

BAE Systems says it has successfully delivered the “SPHEREx” space observatory to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, ahead of a planned launch in late February. Short for “Spectro-Photometer ...