James Webb Telescope spots a rare sight on an extraterrestrial body: clouds
For centuries astronomers have been curious about this moon of Saturn, and thanks to new telescopes like James Webb, we're ...
For centuries astronomers have been curious about this moon of Saturn, and thanks to new telescopes like James Webb, we're ...
We don't really know why these ultra-big structures get so big -- but finding more of them could help us ...
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
There could be hundreds of such events, unnoticed, every day.
Some headline formats never get old.
This could help answer some of the biggest questions of the universe
Mothballed on NASA's shelves were the plans to view stars 13 billion years in the past. Now, a group of ...
Up close and per-Sun-al.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning close-up image of comet NEOWISE, which recently captured the public’s imagination becoming ...
Weather-related phenomenons are taking a toll on the telescope
It's part of a set of innovative projects funded by the space agency.
The results from New Horizon's New Year's Day Flyby of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth are in, and it could just ...
It looks like caramel corn. Yum!
The ESA’s CHEOPS telescope has finally launched kick-starting the next phase in exoplanet investigations.
If having most moons was a race, Saturn just took an unexpected lead.
The James Webb spacecraft is scheduled to launch in 2021, when it will become the world's most powerful space science ...
It's one of the fundamental universal features -- and we're still struggling to understand it.
It's an unexpected side effect of a useful plan.
Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
Weighing without using a scale.
NASA's future planet hunter has arrived -- and it's set for glory.
The findings might help piece together the evolution of the universe.
The search for extraterrestrial life is about to get some new recruits -- us.
Hint: it would be spectacular.
Built to boldly probe where no man has probed before.
China is currently building the world's largest radio telescope, that will be capable to detect signs of life from billions ...
Our Universe may be riddled with millions of supermassive black holes, a new study reports. The reason why we haven't ...
Space-based telescopes have been used to spot planets (even Earth-like planets) for years now, but this is the first time ...
After years of planning and engineering schemes, the construction of the $1.4 billion telescope in Hawaii has finally begun. The ...
Researchers believe they have found seven dust specs from outside the solar system. This is the first time we have ...
You just gotta love European engineers! They're about to blast away the top of a Chilean mountain to create a site ...
An international discovered a young, exotic, rogue planet - PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has ...
Dark energy is the mysterious force that drives the Universe's expansion at an ever increased pace. Probing and understanding this ...
An artist's rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will become the world's biggest scope, at sunset. (TMT Observatory Corp.)l ...
The short answer is, no. Not with the naked eye at least, but if you use a highly potent set ...
Backed by an international consortium, ten years from now the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the world ...
As far as science goes, most of the time size really does matter. Think of a tiny amateur telescope how ...
The nebula you are looking at is known as the North American nebula, and the pictures were taken with the ...
Forget the Moon - for the first time ever we have a full view of the star in our solar ...
The Goldilocks area is one of the most interesting for astronomers throughout the known Universe, as it has great hope ...
Researchers have confirmed the presence of a previously undiscovered structure located in the center of the Milky Way, a discovery ...
Barack Obama came out and said that it should be possible for NASA to send astronauts to Mars and bring ...
The Planet Researchers have long been interested in finding other planets that have approximately the same size as our mother ...
Hubble has had a lot of problems in recent days, but now the telescope we love the most is up ...
Unfortunately for some, the green visitor is not an alien coming to greet us but something else, even though it ...
As we learn (or at least should) at quite an early age, Galileo Galilei had quite the impact on science, ...
Beta Pictoris (β Pic / β Pictoris) is part of a group of hot young stars that have the same ...
Despite the fact that they have worked round the clock for fixing Hubble, it seems NASA engineers have once again ...
The hunt is on for finding other planets we can live on; this is probably the next step for ...