Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark energy.

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space ...

The Space Telescope Live tools show the current targets ... This particular observation is part of a project using MIRI’s integral field unit (IFU), a spectroscopy mode that can observe either ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...

AbstractThe Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides measurements over ... and medium-resolving power (R ∼ 1500 to 3500) integral field spectroscopy. An ...