A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s new space telescope, just opened its eyes to the universe and delivered its very first images from space.

Later this year, astronomers will start filming an unprecedented 10-year movie of the southern sky, using a brand-new and ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope observed asteroid 2024 YR4 in Jan. 2025. The probability of the ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early ... James ...

Experts have unveiled the most detailed images yet of the universe’s infancy, capturing light that traveled for more than 13 ...

To confirm that TOI-512b is a real planet, and not a false-positive brought about by activity on the star, the ESPRESSO ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Neptune’s glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby ...