On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the Sun rises Friday, as three celestial bodies will appear in close conjunction.

Lunar samples show evidence that solar wind could be behind the water molecules on the moon's surface, according to NASA. The ...

From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere you look. But tonight, a ...

Look to the eastern sky late Thursday, and a clear horizon will show you this unusual, grinning planet alignment.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

This animated GIF illustrates Uranus' magnetic field, with the yellow arrow pointing toward the Sun, the light blue arrow indicating the planet’s magnetic axis, and the dark blue arrow showing its ...

NASA, NOAA: Sun Reaches Maximum Phase in 11-Year Solar Cycle Oct. 15 ... 2024 — The International Astronomical Union defines a planet as a celestial body that orbits the sun, is massive enough ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

The University of Arizona has utilized state-of-the-art Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme technology to observe the PDS 70 ...