As fall deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, a single point of light emerges low on the southeastern horizon. That star is ...
When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...
After viewing the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope Friday, Sept. 11, look toward the eastern horizon. Jupiter will be just above the horizon with the thin, nearly 28-day-old ...
Autumn officially begins at 1:21 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23. The sun shines directly on the equator before beginning its slow journey toward the south. The sun’s apparent movement through the sky is due ...
During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond black ...
Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. This region, known as N11, is one of the galaxy’s ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is suffering the kinds of aches and pains that can come with being old, and NASA officials say they're shifting into a new way of pointing the telescope in order to work ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing ...