In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

N ASA's planetary defense telescope Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has burned up in the ...

A team of astronomers using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey has modeled the hot gas in our local stellar neighborhood, ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

The best telescopes allow astronomers to access exceptional views of the night sky, from stars and planets ... the factors that matter when choosing a telescope. If you're a beginner, you might ...

A nearby star is surrounded by an eerily perfect, "pancake-like" disk of cosmic debris that is unlike anything seen before, new James Webb Space Telescope ... in the night sky, Vega was depicted ...

In early November, it’s barely visible with the naked eye in the early evening western sky, although you really ... it’s not much of a telescope target because of its complete and thick ...

Mars’ features are starting to become visible, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and the Trifid Nebula glows in the sky this week.

On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin ...

The first piece of the Euclid space telescope's map of the universe is crammed with 14 million galaxies and 100 million sources of light. The mapping project is now 1% done.