The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

These discoveries laid the groundwork for further exploration of the solar system. Today, the Galilean moons remain of great ...

A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

The first full moon of 2025 is nearly here. Dubbed the "wolf moon" for its connection to wolves calling on those long January nights, this month's other astronomical events will give skywatchers ...

Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...

From a pair of oppositions and conjunctions to a total lunar eclipse, here are the top astronomy events to mark down on your ...

What Is a Magnetosphere? A magnetosphere is the region surrounding a planet that is dominated by its magnetic field. While ...