The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.

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The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

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Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

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Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of KiDS J0842+0059, a rare, ancient galaxy that has remained virtually unchanged for ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

There are many impressive and extremely technologically advanced telescopes set up throughout the world. These telescopes play different roles.