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

On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Super-Venus GJ 1214 b offers new insights into the evolution ... GJ 1214 b continues to remind about the great variety of ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of an ultraviolet view of ... This month, Jupiter will appear lined up in the sky alongside Mars, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, in a so-called "planetary parade".

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

For the study, which was led by Dr. Everett Schlawin from the University of Arizona, the researchers used data obtained from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST ... that GJ 1214 b is more of a ...

Hubble's discovery of expanding galaxies confirmed the universe's vastness, laying the foundation for the Big Bang theory and ...

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...