In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Ever wondered what the sky looks like on other planets? Prepare to be astounded as we unveil the first real images of the sky beyond Earth, capturing the breathtaking and unusual views from other ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instruments were taken offline in March. One especially power-hungry instrument – ...

The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the ...

A solar mission shared between the European Space Agency and NASA has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged 14 Her c, one of the coldest, oldest, and faintest planets known to date.

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to ...

Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Given just how big space is, the solar system seems like it shouldn't be too mysterious. But there are actually plenty of ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...