The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

NASA's James Webb telescope has captured an incredible image in its 'best ever detail' - but something about the discovery is ...

Believe it or not, we've seen a few optical illusions in space over the year. Well, we haven't seen them – the Hubble ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image yet of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble previously ...

Vivian Poulin asks if the tension between a direct measurement of the Hubble constant and constraints from the early universe ...

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of NGC 4536, a starburst galaxy brimming with intense stellar activity. Located 50 million light-years away in the Virgo ...

Neptune often looks slightly different in observations, as it has dark spots which appear periodically. But it can also be bright at times, as the observations of auroras there show: In the image ...