NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...

Using a telescope at Kitt Peak, scientists have produced the largest 3D map of the universe ever made and uncovered ...

A dazzling galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is forcing cosmologists to reexamine key assumptions ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

How do water and hydrogen interact in planetary evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a | Space ...

Webb captured an Einstein ring formed by a distant galaxy's light bending around a closer one. This rare alignment magnifies ...

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...

Einstein rings are fascinating astronomical phenomena caused by gravitational lensing. When light from a distant object ...

New James Webb Space Telescope captures a "cosmic tornado" with imagery of the dramatic outflow from a newly formed star.

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently captured a breathtaking image of an energetic outflow from a developing star. While this structure’s official name is Herbig-Haro 49/50, ...