For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, ...

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

The detection of these auroras provides new insights into how Neptune's magnetic field interacts with solar particles and ...

Astronomers studying a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way may have just witnessed how ...

Paper is an apt analogy here because Saturn's rings are very thin. According to NASA, Saturn's rings average about 30 feet in ...

Read At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Prestigious annual award recognizes exceptional achievement in aeronautics and astronautics in America with respect to ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...