On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

Five Year of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

Scientists say 3I/ATLAS is moving at speeds above 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h). It is only the third interstellar object ever ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

This telescope attaches to your smartphone and lets you zoom in on stuff that's far away. It's a fun accessory that's perfect ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...