What a Christmas present it was – it just blew me away!” Jonathan Nichols of Leicester University summed up the thrill of ...

Planetarium and Program Coordinator Katy Downing of the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center shares the visible planets and ...

Jupiter’s auroras sparkle with mystery — and Webb just uncovered a cosmic riddle scientists didn’t see coming.

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the diameter of our sun and 36.7 light years away. Boötes is chasing the Bears with ...

The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an ...

Thursday, May 22 The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it’s best to catch them earlier rather ...

The lights are similar to the auroras seen on Earth but are “hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth." ...

This week, an old astronomical controversy is renewed as researchers present new evidence for a hidden "Planet X" in our solar system.

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

New images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show details of Jupiter's auroras and how they are formed.

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

The infrared views, captured in 2023, shed light on the giant planet's atmosphere and magnetosphere—but they also reveal something unexpected ...