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

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

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

After more than a decade of service, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down for good—closing one ...

New James Webb Space Telescope captures a "cosmic tornado" with imagery of the dramatic outflow from a newly formed star.

ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Hinks Elementary students listened to a special presentation about outer space from Rodney Bisher inside STARLAB, an ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Astronomers studying a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way may have just witnessed how ...