Revolutionary technique allows astronomers to capture incredibly high-resolution images of distant galaxies and supermassive black holes.

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Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

In 2016, construction of the High Energy Laser Beam Control Research Testbed (HBCRT) was completed by the NPS research team.

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

Jumping workouts could help astronauts prevent the type of cartilage damage they are likely to endure during lengthy missions to Mars and the Moon, a new Johns Hopkins University study suggests.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission's deployable aperture cover—a ...