This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is ...

Launched on Sept. 6, 2023, XRISM studies X-ray signals emitted throughout the universe. On Feb. 25, 2024, it aimed at a ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

This ghostly galaxy was first observed in 1780 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, who worked with renowned comet hunter ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists uncovered bizarre atmospheric structures on Saturn, including drifting “dark beads” in the ionosphere and an asymmetric star pattern in the ...

Scientists from Rutgers have reported their discovery of a rare "Einstein cross" that helped them localize a large patch of ...

One of the studies, led by Dr. Aleksandra Sokołowska of Brown University and Imperial College London, has identified 258 ...

A massive asteroid, 2025 FA22, will safely pass Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 4.6 million miles. Initially ...

On Sept. 23, a spacecraft will launch with a clear mission — to keep a constant watch on the sun to help protect Earth from ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope observed dark beads and lopsided star patterns drifting over Saturn’s ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...