The Hubble is just one of NASA's orbiting "great observatories." The group also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ... such as star and planet formation).

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

The images are a massive step up from the Hubble Space Telescope's attempt, which can barely make out one faint ring around Uranus. The newly enhanced image shows details of the planet's seasonal ...

These temporary features seem to appear within Saturn’s rings before the start of the planet’s autumn ... future observations by Hubble and the James Webb space telescope, will help us learn ...