A study of the "failed star" brown dwarf known as "The Accident," conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope, may reveal a solution to an old mystery of Jupiter and Saturn.
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These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets.
The winning bid for this screen-used prop made 'Star Wars' history last week... let's just hope the seller doesn't alter the deal.
Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new laboratory experiments.
The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of interstellar space.
One of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites has been captured overflying a top-secret airbase in China that was photographed by a private American Earth-observation satellite.
The ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award 2025 will be streamed live online on Sept. 11.
Don't let light pollution put you off stargazing or astrophotography, I managed to see galaxies, nebulas and star clusters all in Bortle 7 and 8 class night skies.
Telepathy, good vs evil, heroes fulfilling their destiny… If the "Strange New Worlds" finale 'New Life and New Civilizations' isn't fantasy, it isn't far off.
Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with star-forming regions and an active core.
We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life —but the prospects of such a mission are cloudy at best.
A Russian Progress freighter loaded with 2.8 tons of cargo will launch toward the International Space Station today (Sept. 11), and you can watch it live.
Destiny 2’s next chapter is bringing in themes and elements from a galaxy far, far away without breaking the canon.
SpaceX just bought $17 billion worth of satellite spectrum from debt-ridden operator EchoStar to enhance Starlink direct-to-cell phone connectivity.
In an era when TV shows look like movies, have we lost sight of what should make sci-fi great?
Disney/Pixar's interstellar odyssey landed on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD for all Earthlings!
Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than previously thought, changing our perception of the early solar system.
The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ telescope is on sale for $367 on Amazon and is a great budget choice for observing the opposition of Saturn overnight on Sept. 20.
If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a "gravitational keyhole" that brings it to Earth.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found yet more chemical signatures that could be associated with ancient Red Planet life — but we need to examine them here on Earth to fully understand them.
Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes, LIGO has confirmed the predictions of the greatest minds in physics.