The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

As the Trump administration continues to slash federal spending, rumored cuts to science funding has left the future of Big ...

Paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory ... The star is surrounded by a giant, pancake-shaped disk of gas and dust. Intriguingly, the disk is marked by a large ...

Within a hundred meters of the surface, there's enough sunlight to support plant growth such as giant kelp ... Ferdinand Magellan's expedition managed to circumnavigate the planet by ship because ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune.

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured ... coronagraphs to analyze a larger number of giant exoplanets and compare their composition to various ...

Scientists in China have proposed building a radio telescope array on the moon’s far side, which, if approved, could become the first operational lunar radio observatory. The array would consist ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...