It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

"A long time ago in a galaxy far ... When the pictures were taken, the spacecraft was between 15,379 miles and 30,633 miles from the planet's cloud tops. This is the Little Dumbbell Nebula ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

But one backyard astrophotographer has shattered that notion with a stunning photo of the Andromeda Galaxy, revealing individual ... some of our solar system’s planets, like Saturn.

Dury was able to gauge the relative positions of the other celestial bodies and took photos at multiple exposure levels to capture the light from both the brighter and dimmer planets. Breaking ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it ... reveal unprecedented details of planets when they are very young.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Attention astronomy fans: This week you have the opportunity to see all of the planets in the night sky — but you’ll have to be lucky and have some special equipment.

A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests.