The Winter Circle (or Winter Hexagon) isn’t a constellation. It is an asterism, made of bright stars in the winter evening ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists study a strange mass about 20 light-years from Earth. Traveling ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets ...

Previously thought to be defined by simple cloud patterns, NASA's JWST has unveiled the astonishing complexity of SIMP 0136, ...

An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to monitor a broad spectrum of infrared light emitted over two full rotation periods ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare ...