Dune. Star Wars. Alien. Science fiction movies love alien worlds, and so do we. But how do scientists find planets outside ...

A recent study has shown that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy approximately 200,000 light-years from ...

Vaonis' Hestia combines a telescope and camera into an all-in-one package that will turbocharge your phone for astroimaging.

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first batch of images and data for its Euclid space telescope. The images focus ...

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

using data from China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telescope and European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory. Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas ...

O n April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope flew aboard space shuttle Discovery, which makes this year the 35th ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...