It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud tops of the gas giant Jupiter as the Galilean moons Io and Europa pass ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has measured for the first time the chemical composition and physical characteristics ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

Those planets are thought to be our best chance at finding alien life elsewhere ... It was found by scientists using more than 20 years of data, gathered from a wide array of telescopes, and looking g ...

What's the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its ...

Nov. 5 — Full moon, the “beaver moon” and the “hunter's moon,” another super moon At this position in the moon’s orbit around ...

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

These are America’s best space museums, from the Kennedy Space Center to Houston’s Space Center—they get you up close with ...

Nevada’s Great Basin Star Train takes passengers on a three-hour journey through the desert for a guided stargazing ...