New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives. Astronomers have captured a spectacular scene of two ageing stars sculpting ...

Astronomers have identified the most Earth like exoplanet yet, orbiting a sunlike star in the habitable zone 1,400 light years away. It is a snapshot of how far the search for life has come, and how ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

The draft environmental assessment argues that Haleakala may be the only site where the new telescopes could be built and asserts that its geographic location and optimal viewing conditions would ...

So scientists found a workaround. Instead of building one gigantic telescope, they placed smaller telescopes far apart and ...

Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that distort the image, but the ...

In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible — low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Plans for several new military telescopes atop the mountain are drawing strong opposition. But protests over other Maui ...

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...