SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Welcome to SolarBalls! This channel features entertaining space animations that help you learn about the solar system and the ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...

Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with the help of the world’s most powerful telescope, ventures through the Milky Way and into the universe beyond, on the hunt for alien worlds.

The beginning of winter is a great time to be taking up astronomy, with long dark nights and a multitude of bright stars on display, Nigel Henbest writes ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has become the latest flashpoint in a long running argument over how boldly scientists should ...

Destination Moon' follows a real-life astronaut mission that ended tragically — and the lessons learned for future Apollo ...

NASA's Jonny Kim and two cosmonauts are scheduled to leave the ISS today (Dec. 8) at 8:41 p.m. ET. Three astronauts will head ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.