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 ...
Three supermoons will light up 2025's calendar, with the largest occurring on November 5. These events include the Hunter's Moon on October 7, the Beaver Moon on November 5, and the Cold Moon on ...
According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...
The 2025 stargazing guide includes Venus at it brightest, a sunrise solar eclipse and three supermoons. Here are all the ...
The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.
In 2025, space agencies are gearing up for some ambitious goals. Here’s a look at the most exciting missions planned for the coming year.
New data confirms Hubble's finding and refutes current theories of planet formation in the universe’s early days. Thanks to ...