Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.

After 2024 YR4 was detected late last year, the European Space Observatory (ESO)'s Very Large Telescope in Chile captured these images of the ... the solar system’s planets to work out the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured the rare image of NGC 602, which is a star cluster that lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way.

NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro ... SPHEREx will carry out a series of precise maneuvers such that it images particular pockets of the sky for a few days at a time ...

Beginning in late February, seven planets will align in the night sky. But Uranus and Neptune may require a telescope to see. Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system, the seven planets will ...

There is a good list of other options here, too. You will need some binoculars or a telescope to see the planets in all their glory, so if you haven't already, start planning now. And keep your ...

The telescope may operate for 20 years, and it's off to a good start. Let's take a look at the best of Webb so far. Here, in no particular order, are the 35 best Webb images we've seen to date.

Dark Matter Ring: The ring was found in the cluster CL0024+17 which is located 5 billion light-years from us. It measures 2.6 million light-years across. NGC 6357: It is a Star Cluster + Nebula ...

In 1998, Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph took the first ultraviolet (UV) images of Ganymede, which revealed colorful ribbons of electrified gas called auroral bands. Quadruple Saturn ...

On February 28, all seven planets will align and be visible from Earth, a celestial event last seen in January without Mercury. This rare planetary alignment coincides with the end of the Maha ...

I wanted to photograph them drinking water from the underwater perspective because I did not see any images showing this. The weather was a critical, and it took me several weeks to get the best ...

This timelapse video shows observations of the Milky Way’s central black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (A-star), by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. At left, NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) images, ...