Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully unravelled many secrets by pushing the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology closer to the beginning of time.
A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...
New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict traditional theories about early galaxy formation, revealing ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...
Happy Galaxies Day! A century ago tonight, Edwin Hubble exposed a photograph at the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson whose ...
Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...
But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to ...
According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...
Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.
An Indian Jesuit from Goa, he is the superior of the community of the Vatican Observatory. He told AsiaNews that his “field ...