When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego.

NASA has released new images showing the fascinating structure dubbed a 'pillar of creation'. The image captures an enormous cosmic tower which measures nearly 10 light-years tall in the Eagle Nebula ...

However, that isn’t what scientists see. Instead, stars orbit at about the same speed regardless of their distance from the galactic center. You might see this referred to as the "Galaxy Rotation ...

An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape.

NASA’s PUNCH mission just took a big step forward with the first images from its solar-observing instruments, revealing the outer atmosphere of the Sun like never before. As the four-satellite ...