The Inouye Solar Telescope just activated its most powerful instrument, VTF—a massive precision tool designed to unveil the ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

In a breathtaking new photograph shared by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the sun rises behind the Extremely Large ...

The predawn hours of April 28 will see a planetary triangle form in the night sky, as Venus makes a close approach to Saturn following a conjunction, while Neptune, invisible to the naked eye, will ...

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope by releasing a ...

The researchers found a huge clump of dark matter about 1.4 million light-years west of the cluster’s center.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare. See at time-lapse of ...

Earth" planet was discovered by researchers. It is not believed these planets are more common than previously thought.

An international team of astronomers has found that super-Earth exoplanets are far more common across the universe than once ...

Are we alone in this universe? A study led by the University of Cambridge provides a flicker of hope that it may not be so, and the answer may lie 120 light-years from Earth. The study, published in ...

A recent study has revealed that super-Earth exoplanets, worlds that are larger than Earth but smaller than Uranus or Neptune, are far more common in the universe than previously believed. The ...