The unobstructed skies that gave Big Sky, Montana its name made for an appropriate setting for the release of two postage ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory will provide astronomers with a big-picture view of the cosmos like none before.

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

The ring-shaped clouds around the nebula RCW 120 were detected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in this composite image. The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million ...

Astronomers warn that proposed changes to the space observatory's operational budget could decrease the amount of ...

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

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...