These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

Scientists looked at Jupiter’s massive auroras using the James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — and found a mystery they ...

The infrared views, captured in 2023, shed light on the giant planet's atmosphere and magnetosphere—but they also reveal something unexpected ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth.

The telescope captured the space phenomena, which is hundreds of times brighter than the auroras we see on Earth.

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

On a volcanic island under some of the darkest skies on Earth, I rediscovered the night sky and came home with a new view of ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months after it got off the ground ...

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"Our discovery of highly ionized neon emission in the nucleus of M83 was unexpected," said paper lead Svea Hernandez, an astronomer for the European Space Agency at the Space Telescope Science ...

NASA's school-bus-sized telescope won't quit. In what's become a brilliant investment for scientists and taxpayers alike, the Hubble Space Telescope launched into space 35 years ago, and for ...