On Friday 17 January and Saturday 18 January, six planets will line up in the night sky, in an event that some astronomers ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

While large portions of the pillars appear dark red in the Hubble image, the JWST image depicts most of the formation in ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

The long-abanonded,1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and creating a time lapse of the phenomena.

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

Webb's observations of infrared light echoes near Cassiopeia A unveil the complex 3D structure of interstellar dust and gas, ...

A composition photo of images taken during the lunar occultation on Jan. 4 captures the progression of the moon moving in ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...