This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

NASA has put its recently launched SPHEREx space telescope into operation. The scientific mission is due to begin at the end ...

NASA's James Webb telescope took an emergency look at the asteroid scientists feared would smash into Earth in 2032 ...

Uncover the insights gained from the Webb telescope about early galaxies and their role in illuminating the universe.

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...