Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a gallery of detailed snapshots of planetary systems during their "teenage years," an era long shrouded ...

From a rare lunar occultation of Regulus and a six-planet parade to an annular solar eclipse, there will be plenty going on in the night sky in February 2026.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features an uncommon galaxy with a striking appearance. NGC 7722 is a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation ...

From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over ...

In the skies of Earth in February, six of the seven other planets—all except Mars—can be seen in the early evening, but not all at once. Look for the two innermost planets in ...

NASA has scheduled the launch for the Artemis II moon rocket for no earlier than Feb. 8. WTOP will have details on the ...

Now, using the world's largest radio telescope project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), ...

Dive into the birth of the Solar System and discover how a chaotic cloud of gas and dust, collisions, and gravity created a ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Smack dab in the Ring Nebula, astronomers have stumbled upon a massive bar-shaped structure of iron that had previously ...