Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

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

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

A map of the CMB published by ACT researchers. Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

The final results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer the sharpest, most sensitive view of the early cosmos that ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...