Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is launching a nationwide strategic investment in the future of rural ...

Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest in history, will peak on April 21–22 but remains visible across India until April ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from the ...

From the first days of 2025 up until recent weeks, the dancing swirls of pink, purple, and green have been visible from ...

Well, they're back. Seven months on from that historic performance, they've unveiled a cover of Deep Purple's Highway Star, and it's even better. The four kids appear to have spent much of the ...

Credit: MPI-IS / A. Posada A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers is a top priority for astronomers. These rare ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...