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 ...

Take a journey to the James Webb Space Telescope's stunning view of giant galaxy cluster WHL0137-08. Credit: Space.com | zoom-in courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI) / Acknowledgment: NSF's ...

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

SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship carrying CoronaGraph and CODEX, a solar observation telescope jointly developed by Korean and U.S. researchers, has successfully docked to the International Space Station.

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed a massive disk surrounding the star Vega in unprecedented new ...

The discovery of the supermassive black, thought to be within 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, gives astronomers new ...

This little gadget lets you zoom in on all the “private” lives of backyard wildlife, bringing nature’s antics up close in stunning detail.

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

A new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics by researchers from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), ...

On December 1, 2020, one of the world’s most iconic astronomical facilities came crashing down. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, with its 900-ton platform and massive dish, was a symbol of ...

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