Astronomers are gathering in Phoenix this week for the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247), where ...

Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

Earth's nearest celestial neighbor is set to take center stage in 2026, with major lunar missions and a rare solar eclipse ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

Size matters when it comes to telescopes. The bigger they are, the farther they can see. Prioritizing constructing large ones ...

“Megaconstellations” of vast numbers of satellites could threaten space-based astronomy, scientists have warned. In recent years, companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX have launched thousands of new ...

Scientists discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the planet’s total to 274. Many of these moons are “only a few ...

March 14 is known as Pi Day, as the numerical way of writing that day — 3-14 — matches the first three digits of the mathematical constant "Pi". As one of the most important mathematical constants ...