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The James Webb Space Telescope is doing something astronomers dreamed about for decades: peering into our universe’s early past, a…

Meet Our Flying Missions NASA’s Astrophysics Division is dedicated to exploring the universe, pushing the boundaries of what is known…

How are we made of star stuff? Well, the important thing to understand about this question is that it’s not…

Swift launched into orbit on Nov. 20, 2004, as NASA’s Swift Gamma-ray Observatory. In 2018, NASA renamed the spacecraft in…

Processed with rainbow hues to represent a range of infrared wavelengths, the new pictures indicate the astrophysics space observatory is…

Editor’s note: This story was updated March 11, 2025, to reflect a new target launch date and time. NASA’s latest…
This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring…
This is the largest photomosaic ever made by the Hubble Space Telescope. The target is the vast Andromeda galaxy that…

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100…