To celebrate its third year of operations, the powerful space telescope has peered into the heart of an empyrean essence of cat: the Cat's Paw Nebula, a giant complex molecular cloud named for its ...

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

Named 3I/ATLAS, the object reportedly rich in water ice was discovered on July 1 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile, when it was about 416 million miles (670 million kilometers) from the Sun.

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

A mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, according to scientists.

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captures the "Cosmic Owl," a rare galactic formation resembling an owl’s face. See stunning images.

There’s a new stop along the popular tour at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, and it presents views that showcase ...

Another telescope on Mauna Kea is set to be decommissioned. With Fourth of July past, attention focuses on the Koloa ...