Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the "major item of equipment" phase for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics ...

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For over 400 years, ever since Galileo first observed sunspots, we have wondered how these cooler, dark patches could persist ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing the hidden chemistry of the icy moon's interior.

In 2025, Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican Observatory. He commemorated the 1969 moon landing. He observed the Sea of ...

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The waning crescent Moon would be passing in front of the Pleiades open star cluster on July 20, 2025, for sky watchers to ...

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The James Webb telescope has captured some seriously cool direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. This is the telescope's first exoplanet discovery.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.

A Telescope to the Past as Galileo Visits U.S. On loan from Florence to Philadelphia, a telescope used by the astronomer gives you an idea of how hard it must have been for Galileo to be Galileo.