A telescope meant to peer into distant galaxies revealed mysteries much closer to home. Hubble’s gaze uncovered new moons, ...

Giant, gas-rich planets may have been able to form more easily in the very early universe than they do today, according to astounding new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that ...

Astronomers have witnessed a young star, EK Draconis, unleash a powerful, multi-temperature plasma eruption, offering a rare ...

On April 24, 1990, all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven ...

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of ...

Why it's so special: This iconic montage features images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune captured between 2014 and 2024 as part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy ...

“Full beaver supermoon” is not a combination of words that one encounters often, but this month brings the second of three ...

BALTIMORE -- The Hubble Space Telescope has found methane in the atmosphere of a distant planet -- the same planet where water was found last year. Such discoveries could aid efforts to find life on ...

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly detected the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. The unique observation shows it may be possible to find ...