There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...

This ZWO scope promises that anyone can capture high-quality images of stars, nebulae, and even the Sun, no imaging knowledge ...

Location: American space telescope orbiting the Sun Launched: 2003 Cost: $776 million Namesake: Lyman Spitzer, astronomer Specialties: Infrared observations of cool, remote features in space from ...

The James Webb space telescope had several stunning findings this year that changed how we understand the universe.

Modern space telescopes observe thousands ... help in the endeavor of forecasting. From its observation position in space, it will look at the sun from the side and notice sooner than Earth ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...

“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is relatively short,” Valeriy Vasilyev, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the ...