NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have produced a detailed paired view of Saturn, and the images are doing more than just looking pretty. Taken weeks apart, the two ...

Saturn spin mystery is finally solved as JWST reveals how auroral heating drives winds and currents in Saturn’s upper atmosphere.

The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo—Earth's atmosphere. Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort ...

A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in ...

F.lux automatically changes the warmth of your screen as the sun goes down to help ease eye strain. The app is also ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that the spinning of a small comet slowed and then ...

For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking observatory launched into low-Earth orbit 36 years ago, and it’s now been operational two ...

Hubble image of the Egg Nebula. A disc of gas and dust surrounded by beams of light and concentric rings of dust. (SA / Hubble & NASA, B. Balick (University of Washington)) Hubble may no longer be the ...

Levon Pogosian receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The work described in this article was enabled in part by support provided by the BC DRI Group and ...

Lurking in the southwestern corner of Aquarius the Water-bearer, globular cluster M72 doesn’t stand out. At magnitude 9.4, it ranks among the dimmest globulars Charles Messier included in his ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Pillars of Creation, located in the Eagle Nebula. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Since its launch in 1990, Hubble has transformed our understanding of the cosmos. The space telescope revealed a universe teeming with galaxies, stars, and planets instead of what we once saw as empty ...