In North America, the galaxy will become visible 41° above the north-eastern horizon at around 8:30 p.m. EDT, and continue ...

April’s nights see some of the sky’s largest constellations, and from their vastness spring a laundry list of celestial and ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

(if going by patent filings) of the telescope to finally see Neptune's auroras, and it's thanks to NASA's James Webb Space ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

Using explosives to create beauty rather than warfare and violence provides a sliver of hope for our shared human future.” ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...