The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft after it landed on the moon, with Earth in the distance. Blue Ghost just completed its mission, which lasted a full lunar day — two Earth weeks — on the near ...
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...
The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...
Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.
The newly released Euclid images hint at the large-scale organization of galaxies in what is known as the cosmic web, ...
The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope's mission to map the ...
An artist’s concept of the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star,” previously nicknamed the “Death Star.” New research ...
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...