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 ...

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

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

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

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

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...

NGC 1672, a stunning barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado, puts on a dazzling ...

7 Jaw dropping James Webb space telescope images. Pennsylvania Elections Judge Changes His Tune After Vote Counting Concerns ...

Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn't obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so they can capture ...

Scientists believe that about 14 billion years ago, during the Big Bang, an unidentified energy made the universe expand ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.