This photo of M16 is the latest redux image published to mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, which ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

A rare alignment of planets and our moon will produce a celestial old-school emoticon in the pre-dawn eastern sky on April 25 ...

According to NASA, the planetary phenomenon will be clearest about 45 minutes before sunrise, low in the eastern sky and appearing near the moon. Venus and Saturn will be the easiest to spot — but for ...

NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission has taken its first measurements.

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

This week is International Dark Sky Week. Lights that are aimed upwards or not properly capped illuminate the atmosphere and ...

Saturn, our hard-knock planet of boundaries and karmic lessons, forms a powerful conjunction with the North Node of fate at ...

In this edition of The Download, we dive into insights from SXSW, where we had the chance to talk with Jim Rabuck at the ...