Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

A stronomers at the Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory (PVOL) are appealing for help, after an image taken by ...

Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...

Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...

A possible new "jellyfish" galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could deepen our understanding of galaxy ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...