The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of stellar nursery 30 Doradus, nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula. The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-infrared Instrument (MIRI) ...

Reach for the Stars is offering a family-friendly stargazing event in Tucson that includes views of Saturn, Jupiter, the Orion nebula, star clusters and galaxies.

The Orion Nebula is located just 1,500 light-years away, making it the closest large star-forming region to Earth. Easily ...

As someone who lives near the city, light pollution limits what I see when I look up at night. However, that doesn't mean I ...

When we join him next month, King will be freshly arrived from Norway, where he’s leading a Roads Scholar trip to see the Northern Lights. Minnesota Night Skies will be a monthly podcast for the ...

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...

The Dwarf 3 is great for astrophotography beginners, but it also has lots of useful tools for more experienced hobbyists.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do. But when ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission, set to launch in February 2025, will utilize an advanced infrared telescope to map the entire sky in 102 colors. This affordable $488 million mission aims to explore cosmic ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European ...