Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

SEE ALSO: Stop describing a planet as 'Earth-like' unless it really is This marks the first time so many Earth-sized worlds have been found orbiting the same star. It's possible that some of those ...

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC/M. Marcussen Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar wobbles hinting at planetary companions ...

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these massive structures are likely several centuries old.

Her biggest supporters were her parents, actors themselves who put their careers aside to raise their children, who scraped together whatever money they had to help her become a star. She credits ...

Planetary Parade 2025: The planets are aligning this week for a celestial event that will be seen around the globe. Seven planets will line up for a so-called "planet parade" on Friday, Feb. 28, as ...

Skywatchers were able to see all seven other planets in the Earth’s solar system simultaneously, although a telescope was needed to observe them all. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and ...