High up on the top of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing completion. At the heart ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave a cosmic mystery a serious plot twist. The event in question—a ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought – ...

To progress in Look Outside you’ll need to collect a full set of planet discs — each disc has a number associated with it, ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

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Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies ... But Euclid is turning this expansive void into a technicolor canvas brimming with galaxies. “There’s only a finite ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The death of my husband a few years ago left a giant void in the lives of my sons. Suddenly, our home, a place once filled with my husband's gregarious spirit, felt painfully empty. It didn't help ...