Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

Look to the eastern sky, and a clear horizon will show you this unusual, grinning planet alignment thanks to the crescent ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...

The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window narrows as the Sun sets later each day. Mars is past its best, but remains ...

This first full month of spring also presents a micromoon, a chance to see an iconic (if distant) galaxy, and a very ... The moon’s elliptical orbit means that its distance from the Earth ...

Extending farther from our galaxy, by studying deep field observations ... Uranus departs the evening sky by mid-April. Dazzling Venus is easy to spot low in the eastern predawn sky.

"This discovery upends conventional wisdom, as such powerful jets are almost exclusively found in elliptical galaxies, not spirals," Suraj Dhiwar, a researcher at the Inter-University Centre for ...

Jaws of success: the new robotic gripper based on ant mandibles could use used in environmental clean-up as well as in construction and agriculture (courtesy: iStock) Researchers at the University of ...

This is called an Einstein Ring, named after scientist Albert Einstein, who predicted this effect in his Theory of Relativity ...

That’s the elliptical galaxy NGC 5846, which appears about 4 ... our satellite will sit 222,530 miles (358,127 kilometers) away. Venus passes 10° north of Saturn at 2 A.M. EDT.