In a groundbreaking achievement, astronomers have captured a direct image of GJ504b, a distant exoplanet often referred to as ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Gravitational microlensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1936, is an effect that “briefly brightens a distant source ...

Scientists have scored a pristine view of a pair of exotic worlds orbiting a star more than 300 light-years away — one with ...

A young girl peers through a telescope at Scope X ... the colorful clouds wrapping themselves around Jupiter, crisp lunar craters, or the dark spots pockmarking the sun. (Quiz: Can you identify ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery in the YSES-1 system, 300 light-years away. It revealed ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets ...

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