The quotes remind us that these are not real stars. Real stars are “fixed” – they stay in their constellations. But these two ...

The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

The Full Beaver Moon of November 2024 will be the final of four consecutive supermoons this year, appearing slightly larger in the night sky on Friday (Nov. 15).

The last time a human visited the moon was in December 1972 during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Since then, there have been many ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

The term 'supermoon' was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979 as either a new or full Moon that occurs when the ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Newly released images from NASA's Juno spacecraft provide an unprecedented look at Jupiter, revealing stunning details of the ...

In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...