Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

The antennas on Earth and James Webb Telescope in space looked at a seemingly empty space in the sky for several hours to catch the signal. Listen to Story The observations focused on the galaxy GHZ2, ...

The space telescope orbits the sun nearly a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth and has been making observations from that vantage point since 2022. On April 6, 2024, the JWST detected a ...

This image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows the globular star cluster Omega Centauri which is located about 15,790 light-years from Earth. Globular ...

The enormous $10 billion JWST is about a million miles away from Earth, and it's able to detect extremely faint objects that the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes never saw.

Here's When to See Them Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech In January 2025, six planets will be visible in the night sky, with four of them observable without a telescope. They won't appear in a straight ...