A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

Four compact satellites of NASA's PUNCH mission are prepping for a shared launch with the SPHEREx space telescope on a SpaceX ...

The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

On January 15-16, Mars reaches opposition and will be visible as it sits perfectly opposite the sun in the night ... so if you are planning on observing these two, a telescope is essential.

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...