Neptune's unique blue light. The planet's auroras are captured vividly in great detail by NASA's Webb telescope ...

For over forty years, astronomers have been baffled by X-rays from the white dwarf at the center of the Helix Nebula. A white ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope’s mission to map the ...

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

Scientists use martite crystals to date Earth's missing rock record, revealing parts of the Great Unconformity formed 1.4 billion years ago—rewriting geology.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Let's celebrate April first as "Healthy Skepticism Day", especially with fantastical astronomy stories and images online ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...