The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...
Pandora, NASA's newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which ...
"The question 'Are we alone?' is one of the most significant questions, not just in the history of science, but in the ...
The two astronauts have a busy day ahead of them. Hague and Williams will "patch light leaks in the NICER X-ray telescope, ...
"In 2024, Russian telescopes performed 1,231 astro-photometric measurements [determination of the brightness of a celestial body] of small bodies in the solar system, including potentially dangerous ...
A solar eclipse crossed North America ... Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work ...
Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine on Tuesday ...
A rundown of some of the exciting sky events — including meteor showers and the first total lunar eclipse for the U.S. since ...
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine has said its forces destroyed a Russian military headquarters in the southern Zaporizhzhia region as a video on social media purports to show the ...