Shopping for a telescope for someone on your holiday gift list — even if that someone is you — has changed a lot in recent years. For several years now, smart visual telescopes have been available ...

The story begins in 1611 when polymath Johannes Kepler was crossing the Charles Bridge in Prague during a snowstorm. His ...

If you ask planetary astronomers where the solar system ends, they will say well past the planets, well past the bright band of the Kuiper Belt where Pluto resides, and still further to a shadowy ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will provide another “Dome After Dark” event for campus and a program ...

When: Saturday, November 7 and Sunday, November 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

NASA's Swift observatory has ended science operations after atmospheric drag accelerated its descent. The spacecraft now faces re-entry after nearly two decades of cosmic discoveries.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed water clouds on an alien world for the first time, and it's not a planet. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Astronomers have watched Earth-like clouds ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been breaking distance records for decades. Launched almost 50 years ago, it became the farthest human-built object from Earth when it overtook the pathfinding Pioneer ...

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, Brittany Miles, assistant ...

(CNN) — Astronomers say they have directly detected the first-ever radio emission from a planet outside the solar system. The signal, however, is evidence of a colossal magnetic field — not ...