A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

NOAA's new Compact Coronagraph, CCOR-1, onboard the GOES-19 satellite, has begun transmitting its first images, revealing ...

N ASA's planetary defense telescope Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has burned up in the ...

The changing faces of Pluto| The predominant color of Pluto's surface is thought to result from ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking down methane on the planet's surface, leaving a dark ...

Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...

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Since NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016 and began transmitting image data, the world has gotten ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

The edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, found at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula, forms the “mountains” and “valleys” spanning this image captured by the James Webb Space ...