Pluto and other celestial bodies like Ceres, 2003 UB313 does not fit this ... Uranus: It was the first planet to be discovered with the help of a telescope by William Herschel in 1781.

For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is literally parked 1 million miles away. In the nearly three years since it became operational, “Webb,” as it’s called, has made some incredible ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula studied since the late 1800s.

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...