NASA’s Hubble captured images of IRAS 23077+6707, the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing its structure, asymmetry, and potential for forming multiple gas giant planets.

As of Friday, Dec. 26, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent. According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, 37% of the moon will be ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a ...

Astronomers have repeatedly observed events near a distant star that mirror processes from the early solar system’s ...

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space rocks within a nearby ...

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...

Astronomers directly imaged two separate collisions between rocky objects in the Fomalhaut star system. Scientists previously ...

The science behind Santa’s magical ability to traverse the world in one night to deliver toys and joy may always remain a ...

As the world's largest radio/radar telescope when it was commissioned in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory saw countless firsts, from revealing the ...