Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's moon cluster together in the same region of the pre-dawn sky, making for a ...

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers said they were able to detect signs of sulfur-based molecules called dimethyl sulfide or DMS, which on Earth are only produced by life, primarily ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

K2-18b is a little over 120 light-years from Earth — on a galactic scale, this world is practically in our backyard.

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...