The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images of the relatively small world in Earth's galactic backyard.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses a telescope with the largest digital camera ever built, has revealed its first images.

Stunning images showing distant parts of the universe - including one of a region situated thousands of light years from Earth - have been captured by a powerful new telescope.

In two related firsts, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered sand-filled rains on a distant exoplanet as its "sandcastle" partner world forms from sandy matter before the eyes of astronomers.

NASA SPHEREx space telescope has captured its 1st images of cosmos: See stunning photos SPHEREx telescope maps not just a section of the sky, but all of it as it takes about 3,600 images per day.

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ultra-powerful imaging tool. Here’s what you can see.

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study cosmic mysteries.

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The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.

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The "first page" of an incredible cosmic atlas being built by the Euclid Space Telescope has been released. The millions of stars and galaxies represent just 1% of the 3D map the mission will create.

The mosaic of 260 images is the first glimpse into Euclid’s project to create the largest and most accurate map of the universe yet.