The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

American space agency NASA awarded private space company Katalyst a $30 million contract to rescue the orbit-decaying Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ...

Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we've picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible ...

Dubai: The Al Qudra Desert in Dubai is hosting a special, must-see stargazing event focused on the planet Saturn. Scheduled ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley) / VISUALIZATION: Joseph ...

Now is your chance to see every planet in our solar system. This parade of seven planets, eight if you include Earth, peaks Friday evening. Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Saturn are potentially ...

The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the ...

For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its beautiful images highlighting the intensity ...

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Cejka Planetarium in John J. and Char Kopchick Hall will host two programs during the fall semester: “A New Eye: The Rubin Telescope” ...