The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

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Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

Ala Ebtekar’s new cyanotypes for Arion Press were exposed using moon and starlight during a partial lunar eclipse ...

Scientists believe this could one day lead to the discovery of life on a planet in a distant star system. The Hubble Space Telescope detected the oxygen and carbon bleeding off a giant gas-planet ...

The image shows just a small fraction of the Veil Nebula A tiny fraction of the stellar nursery known as Sh2-284 is visible in this glittering, star-filled NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. This ...

Some of those seven Earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 may represent our best chance for finding life of some kind outside of our solar system. And now, the Hubble Space Telescope is starting ...

There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. And with this new research ... That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's ...