In “Pillars of Creation,” Richard Panek shows how the James Webb Space Telescope is altering our view of the cosmos ...

A spacecraft that can provide the propulsion necessary to reach other planets while also being reproducible, relatively light ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been imaging the outer planets of our solar system for a decade, learning about their strange ...

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over nearly ...

Among the asteroids that get close to our planet, the decameter class (those tens of meters wide) has been seen aplenty. One ...

Preparations are underway to send the next round of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX's Crew-8 ...

The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space.

A celestial object found in 2021 within the asteroid belt was confirmed as a main-belt comet, distinguished by its icy composition and comet-like behaviors when near the Sun. Researchers emphasize the ...

Legendary Active Galaxy Contains a Monster Black Hole Amateur astronomers can observe an extraordinary celestial object known as 3C 273, the most distant target visible through a standard backyard ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA's Voyager mission completed humankind's first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture ...

In the most detailed look at a quasar's host galaxy yet, astronomers found weird stuff surrounding the central supermassive ...