The NASA New Horizons spacecraft's extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new look at ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

A new look through decades-old data has unveiled some of the most compelling evidence yet of a hidden ninth planet in the far reaches of our solar system, far beyond the bounds of Neptune and the ...

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

Juno sheds light on Jupiter’s polar storms and Io’s hidden lava, offering insights at two of the solar system’s most extreme ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

Pluto, which infamously lost its status as the ninth planet in 2006, is less than four billion miles away from the sun, sitting in the Kuiper Belt - a region in our solar system beyond Neptune ...