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The James Webb Space Telescope can add another cosmic accomplishment to its list: The space observatory has been used to confirm the existence of an exoplanet for the first time.

The operations center for the telescope is in Baltimore City, at the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins campus.

A December 2022 Hubble Space Telescope photo shows a stunning view of NGC 376, an open cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Since it was last serviced by the US space agencys now retired space shuttle programme in 2009, the 32-year-old observatory has come down by about 15 miles (25km).

Fatima Al-Khateri’s thesis is on spectral classification of Stellar X-ray sources

Our 13 billion-year-old galaxy has gone through many growing pains — usually to the detriment of its smaller neighbors.

Coronas have been previously observed around distant dwarf galaxies, but this recent discovery is the most detailed probe astronomers ever performed

Hubble now circles the Earth at a height of 335 miles (540km) but NASA would like to get it back up to 372 miles (600km), where it was originally positioned when it was launched in 1990.

Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet scientists dont fully know how they form

A stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud is being fed fuel for star birth by a spiral of gas and stars flowing to it, according to observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Larg