On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...

"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...

NASA's achievements, from the iconic Apollo missions to the James Webb Telescope, have redefined space exploration and ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Hubble Space Telescope and MAVEN mission have been used to help unravel the mystery of Mars' escaping water. Credit: NASA ...

Rare blue lurker star found in the M67 open star cluster Unusual rotation speed linked to stellar mergers in a triple system Hubble detects white dwarf companion with ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of an ultraviolet ... This month, Jupiter will appear lined up in the sky alongside Mars, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, in a so-called "planetary parade".

Did you know that Mars at opposition is a special time when Earth and Mars are closest? This happens when Earth passes directly between Mars and the Sun. At this point, Mars appears larger and ...

Two planets that have shone brightly lately are Venus and Mars. Venus is brighter than Mars because of its thick, reflective cloud cover, which bounces a large amount of sunlight back towards Earth.

The Hubble Space Telescope, for comparison, has a 6.5-foot (2 m) aperture, he said. Even the smallest version of HWO will need a huge rocket to haul it into space. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket ...

SINGAPORE - On Jan 16, people in Singapore will have the opportunity to witness Mars at its closest, brightest, and most vivid this year. The Red Planet will be in opposition, an astronomical term ...

Hubble's sharp imaging capabilities can resolve more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting only stars brighter than our sun. They look like grains of sand across the beach. But ...