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

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

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 ...

NGC 2566: The galaxy filling the frame in this James Webb Space Telescope image is NGC 2566, a spiral galaxy in the ...

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 ...

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Believe it or not, we've seen a few optical illusions in space over the year. Well, we haven't seen them – the Hubble ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...

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

Physics Professor Colin Hill and collaborators have released the clearest images to-date of the universe in its infancy.