The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe made history by landing on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and sending back stunning ...

Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

Researchers have called for the public's help after an image appears to show an unidentified object slamming into Saturn.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a "rogue planet" drifting through ...

F iguring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

The rings of Saturn glide so tranquilly when watched through a telescope, that it is easy to forget the planet sits in a ...

But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...