Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently captured a breathtaking image of an energetic outflow from a developing star. While this structure’s official name is Herbig-Haro 49/50, ...

Learn about a new observation of a galaxy emitting ultraviolet light that broke through the early universe's dense fog.

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles ...

Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog of neutral hydrogen gas. Although the first stars and galaxies gave off ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...