Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

Houda Haidar has been awarded observing time on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study how dust behaves near ...

Gaia was retired for a simple reason: after more than 11 years in space, it ran out of the cold gas propellant it needed to keep scanning the sky. The telescope did its last observation on 15 ...

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.