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

Here is everything I saw with a smart telescope in a light-polluted city including galaxies, nebulas and star clusters.

While Saturn has been visible in the night sky all of September, this weekend, the ringed planet will shine its brightest.

Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years,” according to ESA/NASA. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI ...

Uranus's moons — what is unique about each moon and why do they orbit at a tilt?

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have spent two decades and large portions of their exorbitant wealth creating new space technologies. Their plan is to reshape how humans live.

The clear views of Saturn are because it will be making its closest pass to us here on Earth for 2025, giving us the clearest and brightest view we’ll get all year. It will be ‘in opposition’ this ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from outside the Solar System, might have been spewing gases for months ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...