A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory—without leaving Earth.

Pinhole photography works by allowing light to pass through a small hole in the body cap. The purpose of this hole is to ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

These binoculars guide you through the night sky in real time, with a database of 200,000 stars, and in this hands-on test, I ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

The U.S. National Science Foundation on Thursday announced it will close down the massive space telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, ending 57 years of astronomical discoveries after ...

Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich ...

His first serious camera was the iconic Olympus OM10, with which he won the title of Young Photographer of the Year - long ...

The advanced instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope enabled the team to detect minute changes in SIMP-0136's brightness as it rotated. These variations were used to monitor temperature, ...

(CNN) — Sky-gazers should get ready for a full day of celestial events on Sunday, including a partial solar eclipse in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. The partial solar eclipse will peak, the point ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Except during the brief total phase of a total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely blocks the Sun’s bright face, ...