The resulting cosmic clouds — named a "planetary nebula" only because through the first telescopes these distant and roundish objects looked like planets — can be brilliant spectacles ...

Travel easily with the best small telescopes for observing when going on location or sharing with friends and family: Spot the moon, stars, galaxies and more Whether you're a beginner stargazer or ...

Spectacular new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers a detailed, never-before-seen look at a dying star. The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514 ...

But Gaia's mission will continue back on Earth. Scientists are still sifting through the deluge of data the telescope sent back, and are expected to deliver its fourth catalog of the stars in 2026.

The sixteen sources were observed with the Event Horizon Telescope during its first campaign in 2017. The extreme resolution achieved by the Event Horizon Telescope enabled studies of jets closer ...

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a ...

Right now, trillions of neutrinos are passing through your body every single second ... target material are needed to create a neutrino telescope. What’s more, astronomers need to place ...

Brown says he couldn't have asked for a better telescope to hunt his celestial quarry. "If you were to hand me a big wad of cash and say, 'Go build a telescope to go either find this Planet 9 or ...

The above video provides a fly-through visualization of the James Webb Space Telescope's view of Herbig-Haro 49/50. Bars — ribbons of stars and gas that cut across the core of a galaxy — form ...

Every now and then, the star at the center of a planetary system exhausts its hydrogen supply and collapses into a red giant. As the star's outer layers expand, they encroach on planets' orbits ...