Hubble’s 35-year journey showcases humanity’s boldest space achievements, capturing everything from new stars forming to ...

Second, during the waxing phases, the angle the moon makes to the sun opens up wider and wider, exposing more of the moon to ...

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

A recent discovery of a unique exoplanet continues to challenge our understanding of solar system dynamics as a recent study ...

Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...