A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

WASHINGTON - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's third largest, remains ...

Scientists recently detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The researchers conducted the survey using the James Webb ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...