Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

Taken with some major cosmic help, it shows one of the first galaxies to form after the beginning of the universe, almost 14 ...

Several sparkling celestial events will light up southern skies this year, some of which Australians won't need special ...

January 2025 offers a series of spectacular celestial events for stargazers. The month kicks off with the Quadrantid meteor shower, peaking on January 2nd and 3rd, offering a dazzling display of ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...

Hubble made no claims about a creator, but his discoveries and the wonder they evoke have prompted others to reconsider ‘the ...

While privately funded programs to develop space vehicles and execute extraterrestrial missions have been in play for years, ...