Our solar system has the Kuiper Belt, but we're not the only ones wearing a snazzy ring of ice shards and space rocks. Countless other star systems boast belts of their own, which astronomers believe ...
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.
This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star system Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. (Image credit: ESO/Digitized Sky ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...
This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...