Neptune often looks slightly different in observations, as it has dark spots which appear periodically. But it can also be bright at times, as the observations of auroras there show: In the image ...

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

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

ESA’s Euclid mission mapped 26 million galaxies, revealing galaxy shapes, cosmic structures, and gravitational lenses ...

JWST's findings in the HR 8799 system provide key insights into gas giant formation, revealing carbon dioxide and enriching ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

Evidence of Primordial Black Holes May Be Hiding in Planets, or Even Everyday Objects Here on Earth Dec. 2 ... astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

"It's time we all realize that we are crew members on this spaceship called Earth and start to think about our role and ...