A while back, the Webb was trained on a galaxy cluster called Abell S1063, with the stated purpose of looking for a specific ...

Explore 15 photos and facts about the Hubble Telescope, revealing its discoveries, missions, and breathtaking views of space.

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Finding life beyond our solar system is a major goal of modern astronomy. NASA's planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to take direct images of Earth-sized planets around stars other than ...

Back in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on the "first space telescope built specifically to study, in detail, starlight filtered through exoplanet atmospheres." Now, five ...

I stuck to my "no telescope" rule for years, right up until a trip to New Brunswick's dark-sky corridor a few years ago, when ...

Astronomers studying an ancient star cluster have discovered a strange gap where certain stars should exist but do not. The ...

Astronomers spotted missing stars in nearby cluster NGC 6397, offering a rare look at processes deep inside red dwarfs.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do people use telescopes to look into space ...