Let's celebrate April first as "Healthy Skepticism Day", especially with fantastical astronomy stories and images online ...

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

While doing research for a book about the imagination of man, Hutchins came across images of the Sombrero Galaxy ... leading him to write his second book, Hubble Reveals Creation by an Awe-Inspiring ...

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

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

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

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune.

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

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Explore HubbleHubble HomeOverviewAbout HubbleThe History of HubbleHubble TimelineWhy Have a Telescope in Space?Hubble by the ...

The aurora have been overlayed on an image of Neptune taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field ... signature really shocked me.” In Webb's images of Neptune, the aurora appears as ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...