Since NASA shared the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope last July, astronomers have been busy using the telescope to study the cosmos and uncover new information about the origins of the universe. Scott Pelley took a closer look at Webb and its images in the most recent episode of "60 Minutes."
Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the International Gemini Observatory to discover a distant, lonely galaxy that has assimilated its former nearby galaxies, essentially having cannibalized its neighbors.
Nikon has announced that it has invested a financial stake in Unistellar SAS, a France-based smart telescope company. Nikon says that it hopes the investment will promote "the creation of business synergies" for both companies.
Photographers around the world may want to point their lenses to the western night sky tonight to capture a rare image of five planets lined up.
Husband and wife photographer team Antoine and Dalia Grelin spent 81 hours capturing a photo of NGC 2264, a large and colorful nebula 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, not far from the famous Orion Nebula.
New photos from Hubble show what scientists call "spokes" across Saturn's rings. First seen by NASA's Voyager in the 1980s, these spokes appear seasonally and scientists still can't fully explain them.
Astronomers have raised concerns over a new satellite that is now one of the brightest objects in the night sky that could also hinder astrophotographers.
Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are nearly done with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera, the world's largest digital camera ever built for astronomy.
NASA has successfully crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos. The first time ever that Earth has demonstrated planetary defense technology.
NASA is set to intentionally crash its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos tonight, and thanks to a , viewers on earth will be able to watch the first-ever planetary defense test in through a dedicated livestream.
The Vaonis Vespera Observation Station is a small robotic telescope designed to be smart and fully automated, taking the guesswork out of astronomy and making it easy for beginners to start their journey.
The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners for 2022, the 14th edition of the competition. The winning image this year is a photo of Comet Leonard, a subject that will never been seen from Earth again.
Astronomer Jasmine Singh has shared a fascinating comparison of the earliest photograph ever taken of Jupiter and the most recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the planet.
A prominent French physicist is apologizing after admitting that a viral "distant star" photo he shared on Twitter was not actually captured by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but was rather just a slice of chorizo pork sausage.
Canon has partnered with an Australian university to bundle 10 Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 L IS II lenses together into what they call the Huntsman Telescope to scout the skies from the Southern Hemisphere.
The first task I give photography students is to create a starscape. To do this, I ask them to sweep the floor beneath them, collect the dust and dirt in a paper bag, and then sprinkle it onto a sheet of 8x10 inch photo paper. Then, using the photographic enlarger, expose the detritus-covered paper to light.
The Royal Observatory Greenwich's annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022 competition has revealed this year's shortlisted photos from all over the globe.
In a unique lunar composite that took ten years to complete, Italian teacher and astrophotographer Marcella Giulia Pace captured all the different colors she observed of a full Moon.
Astrophotography. We hear the term tossed around a lot these days but what actually is it? The true definition of the word is photography of the nighttime sky. The sky only—at night.
French astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured the full Moon rising under one of the most famous monuments in Paris, the Arc de Triomphe.
NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 32nd birthday through a remarkable photo that shows a collection of five closely-knit galaxies called The Hickson Compact Group 40.
Astrophotographer Jason Guenzel captured a photo of the James Webb Space Telescope as it flew through space toward its final distant parking orbit. The image was captured while the telescope was 1 million kilometers (620,000 miles) away.
A massive and "potentially hazardous" asteroid measuring 0.68 miles (1.1km) wide flew past the Earth at over 43,000 miles per hour on Tuesday. Photographer Andrew McCarthy managed to capture real-time footage showing what the flyby looked like in the night sky.
China's Chang'e 5 lunar lander has found the first-ever on-site evidence of water on the Moon's surface. Photos shot by the probe show the Moon rock and surrounding lunar soil that the water was detected in.
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have spotted at least 70 -- but potentially up to 170 -- new "rogue" planets floating by themselves in space thanks to wide-field images gathered from satellites and other facilities across the globe.
Astrophotographer Jason Guenzel has captured one of his most detailed solar images in his years of photographing "the curiosities of the universe." It's a stunning photo that reveals the twisted "surface" of our Sun.
NASA announced this week that its Parker Solar Probe was the first spacecraft to ever "touch the Sun" by flying through its corona, or upper atmosphere. The probe captured the first photos ever from within the corona, and those images were then turned into this incredible 13-second timelapse video.
China's Yutu 2 lunar rover has photographed what is being described as a "mystery hut" on the far side of the moon, and Chinese scientists are eager to have the robotic exploration vehicle investigate it further.
The world's largest digital camera with a resolution of 3.2-gigapixels is being prepared for installation atop a Chilean mountain where it will scan the sky to help scientists gain knowledge about the Milky Way, dark matter, and other phenomena.
An international team of researchers has bundled groups of 24 Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 lenses together into what they call the Dragonfly Telephoto Array in order to capture photos of distant stars.
Photographer Geoff Decker has spent the last two years creating what he calls Nexus Panoramas: vertical photos that use the Milky Way to link two landscape foregrounds in a single image.
In December of last year, Hubble captured a photo of a distant galaxy that, thanks to gravitational lensing, appeared almost as a perfect "Einstein Ring." A year later, astronomers revealed what they learned from examining the photo.
Something massive slammed into Jupiter this week, and a Brazilian amateur astronomer had his camera aimed at the gas giant at just the right time to capture the event.
Self-described astronomy disruptor telescope brand Unistellar has announced what it calls the world's most powerful and simple to operate digital telescope for consumers - the eVscope 2.
The Subaru-Asahi Camera which is installed at the Subaru Telescope dome in Maunakea, Hawai'i captured a rare "meteor cluster" event, an unusual phenomenon where a group of meteors appeared from the same direction in the sky for 10 seconds.
Astrophysicists have successfully observed light coming from behind a black hole. This observation is the first of its kind and proves Albert Einstein's theory that huge objects can warp space since no light can pass through a black hole and come out the other side.
Amateur astronomer Kai Ly has discovered a new moon of Jupiter while examining photos taken in 2003 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). It is the first time a new moon in the Solar System has been discovered by an amateur.
Nikon has partnered with telescope brand Unistellar -- a self-described astronomy disruptor -- to advance telescope technology for consumer applications and bring the average enthusiast "closer to space."
Accomplished astrophotographer Bartosz Wojczyński has created a gigantic 2.2 gigapixel photo of the Milky Way that he was able to capture in just one night, which is an astounding achievement given that a similar 1.7 gigapixel photo took another photographer 12 years to complete.
Those who want to photograph the night sky can leverage techniques common to all of landscape photography, but they still need to know when, and where, the objects they want to capture in the night sky are going to happen. To help out with that, Telescope Guide has released its 2021-2022 Astronomy Guide and Events Calendar including the best things to see in the night sky.