NGC 4941 dazzles in a new Hubble image, showcasing star-forming regions and a supermassive black hole that dramatically ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is constructed to find out the different aspects of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, to ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

The James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have captured Neptune’s auroras for the first time, revealing the planet’s ...

Also joining the RSE’s 2025 new fellows is David Field, chief executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs both Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park. He previously served ...

If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. Each satellite carries a camera, which acts like a synchronized, single, virtual instrument with ...

The researchers used data from the Hawaii island-based Gemini Telescope and Chile-based Very ... much like the baked surface of Mercury. “A key requirement for habitability is the presence ...

It was intended as a follow up to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), launched in 1990 ... most legendary crewed missions, including the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Appointed by President ...