The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Nov. 17: The Leonid Meteor Shower should be best from 1 a.m. to dawn. Under dark sky conditions, the Leonids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 15 meteors per hour. Nov. 5: Full hunter supermoon — ...

He worked on James Webb Space Telescope, Landsat and TRMM satellites and received various awards during his career ...

Halloween is upon us and the 2025 spooky season is abuzz with talk of three cosmic visitors — Comet Lemmon, Comet SWAN and the interstellar traveler 3I ATLAS — said to be haunting the night sky. But ...

At magnitude 9.5, the Ghost’s Goblet is visible in binoculars and even more striking through a telescope, where its triangular core appears as the “cup” of a ghostly goblet. Astronomy contributor ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Other than being a ‘Trojan Horse’ alien spaceship set to release probes to study our planet, or crashing into Earth, neither ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical ...

Our solar system and galaxy were the first objects of study for what was going on in the universe. Among the various ...

McKinley Museum planetarium director Suzie Dills says her trip to the Galileo museum in Italy was educational, and a thrill.