How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

NASA's James ... Webb was able to reveal fine features of the star's outflow and reveal the fuzzy object to be a distant spiral galaxy. This side-by-side comparison shows a Spitzer Space Telescope ...

Now, the James ... Webb Space Telescope has now solved the mystery! A side-by-side comparison of HH 49/50 from the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2006 (left) versus Webb in 2025 (right). The Webb ...

This new image showcases NGC 346 ... Even though newer telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope are more powerful than Hubble, it still fulfills an important role as an optical space ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA's James ... Webb was able to reveal fine features of the star's outflow and reveal the fuzzy object to be a distant spiral galaxy. This side-by-side comparison shows a Spitzer Space Telescope ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

This time, a rare sighting—an Einstein ring—was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The glowing, eye-like circle in space is really a distorted image of two galaxies instead of ...