The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is literally parked 1 million miles away. In the nearly three years since it became operational, “Webb,” as it’s called, has made some incredible findings.

In a close-up of the Rosette Nebula — a stellar nursery 5,200 light-years away — dark clouds of gas and dust are seen being carved by radiation from massive stars. A young star at the upper right is ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view ...

Nasa is tracking a potentially devastating “zombie star” as it races through our galaxy at more than 177,000kmh. The immensely dense object is one of 30 known magnetars in the Milky Way, which are the ...

The Curiosity rover is heading to a region containing formations that were possibly made by groundwater billions of years ago ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle, which delivered Hubble to space 35 years ago, and it's no secret why both ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured and amazing view of the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104). The galaxy is ...

From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.

Known as SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461, these two overlapping spiral galaxies lie over a billion light-years from Earth and were captured in a photograph by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.