Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

There’s a new stop along the popular tour at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, and it presents views that showcase ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been one of humanity's most incredible tools for unlocking the secrets of the universe. For ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have been used to study a cluster of stars, nicknamed “Nikhuli," ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

There’s a new stop along the popular tour at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, and it presents views that showcase ...

The telescope has the world's largest digital camera, which is the size of a small car, weighs 2,800 kg, and boasts a ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe, which hurtled past Pluto in 2015, demonstrates that it can sail through interstellar space using ...

Astronomers confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, came from interstellar space. It appears to be billions of years old.