The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows off its infrared capabilities once again in new imaging of the well-known ...

Within the next decade, the agency believes its commercial partners can develop vehicles to land a lunar rover and habitat on ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

New models using Voyager 2 data show that separate layers in the planets’ mantles could be creating disordered magnetic ...

China’s historic farside sample-return mission is providing intriguing insights into why the Moon’s farside is so different ...

At the Moon’s average distance, it would take about four hours to see the effect of motion there through 10x binoculars.

Last Quarter Moon occurs at 8:28 P.M. EST, leaving most of the evening dark for deep-sky observing. About two hours after sunset, you’ll find the Great Square of Pegasus high in the ...

In the 1960s, celebrated radio astronomer Frank Drake proposed his eponymous equation, which attempted to wrangle with the probability of finding extraterrestrial life — at least, the kind that ...

The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.

Scientists seeking the secrets of the universe would like to make a model that shows how all of nature’s forces and particles fit together. It would be nice to do it with Legos. But perhaps a ...

Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...