"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

Hinode’s X-ray Telescope is designed to detect low-energy X-rays, while the Solar Dynamics Observatory picks up on extreme ultraviolet light. One of the greatest mysteries about the sun is why ...

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...

SOHO's EIT (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) images the solar atmosphere at several wavelengths and, therefore, shows solar material at different temperatures. In the images taken at 304 ...

This was followed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE ... the three UV instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope—the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the Wide Field Camera ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft has delivered the first-ever close-up images of the Sun's ...

Hubble's latest observations show Uranus' moons behaving in ways scientists didn't expect, revealing surprising clues about ...

Due to how light travels, we can only see the most eye-popping details of space—like nebulas, supernovas, and black holes—with specialized telescopes ... ultraviolet, far ultraviolet, and ...

If you want to play along at home, NASA has a nice site set up to track where JWST is and what its current status is, including temperatures at various points on the telescope. We got a tip from ...