<p>The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. These faint
<p>NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field
<p>Astronomers have pushed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object’s light traveled
<table align="right" width=280 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0 border=0> <tr> <td align=center> <p class=small><br /> An artist’s concept of an exoplanet. Image credit: ESO.</p></td> </tr> </table> <p><b>January 14, 2010:</b> The premiere observatory of the next decade, the James Webb Space
<p>NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe. </p> <p>The Nuclear Spectroscopic
New Technologies for James Webb Space Telescope Approved Early <p>More than a year ahead of schedule, a team of independent experts has approved all ten new technologies developed for NASA’s James