The new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) is the world's largest solar telescope, it captured its first image of the sun — the highest-resolution…
Planetary astronomer Mike Brown proposes the existence of a new, giant planet lurking in the far reaches of our solar system -- and shows…
The latest batch of images shows Bennu in staggering new detail from when OSIRIS-REx was just one mile above the surface. Since OSIRIS-REx reached orbit…
The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on February 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on…
This visualization uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from global elevation maps and image mosaics by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.…
Astronomers have discovered a distant body that’s more than 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. Its provisional designation is 2018 VG18, but…
This is a NASA visualization that traverses the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field to showcase the varied appearances of galaxies and their three-dimensional…
NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) probe successfully completed its soft landing on Mars on Monday after a six-month, 480…
Last week, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) confirmed the astronomical radio source in the middle of our galaxy is a huge black…
A rock that had been used as a barn doorstop on a Michigan farm for more than 30 years is actually a massive meteorite worth…
Dawn is NASA's a mission to the two largest bodies in the asteroid belt – Vesta and Ceres, These diverse worlds offer scientific snapshots…
Over a period of seven months in 2017, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed a beautiful display of northern lights over Saturn's north pole. Earth's northern…
NASA officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) confirmed the first definitive evidence of water on the surface of the Moon, settling a decades-long debate…
Last week, NASA activated its planet-telescope telescope TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) but before that, the telescope was tested by taking some pictures. The photo…
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed a stunning close-up shot of the asteroid Ryugu captured by its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft. Here you can see…
There is a dream that we at one point travel to Mars and terraform the planet so that it becomes a bit more habitable for…
NASA's spacecraft Cassini has been hanging around Saturn for 13 years and in the meantime, its Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has accumulated data.…
A lake of liquid water has been detected by radar beneath the southern polar ice cap of Mars, according to a new study by Italian…
The annual competition 'Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year' is organized by the Royal Observatory Greenwich and is now in its tenth year. Over…
When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it’s a binary pair. Turns out that an asteroid discovered late last year named '2017 YE5' is…