Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that ...

To mark 35 years in Earth’s orbit, NASA is releasing breathtaking images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing ...

The Lyrid meteor shower began Sunday evening and continues for three nights. The best viewing is expected around early ...

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks early this week beginning Sunday evening and continues for three nights. The best viewing is ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of ...

Solar flares accelerate energetic electrons that escape into interplanetary space, guided by the Parker spiral magnetic field ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

"It is larger than the size of most anything to which it might be compared." The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with ...