Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it actually work?

In the photograph of NGC 1068, a spiral galaxy with a black hole at the center, Chandra’s X-rays are responsible for the blue ...

The newly released images from a December flyby are so detailed that scientists can see explosions and the flow of solar winds.

The Aquatennial has begun! Though last night's Torchlight Parade was cancelled due to weather, Minneapolis' official civic ...

Now the Spanish government has pitched to bring the giant facility to La Palma, in Spain’s Canary Islands — and backed up the effort with a pledge to contribute €400 million (US$470 million).

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Photographing the sun can be an amazing experience and this guide explains how to do it in safety with a camera or telescope.

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

A smaller 60-foot-tall NASA spacecraft known as a sounding rocket launched from New Mexico to study the sun's mysterious chromosphere and its corona.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

Earlier in the day, filtered telescopes will be set up at the Point Pelee National Park Visitor Centre from 1 to 4 p.m. to ...