Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant star, revealing unexpected ...

A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

An international team of scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to uncover surprising details about the ...

From flaring black holes to strange early galaxies, the Webb telescope is showing us the wonders of the universe like never before.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered complex atmospheric shifts in SIMP 0136, a free-floating ...

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, according to new research.

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...