A Brown University researcher helps to lead the science team for NASA’s HiRISE camera, which caught images of the comet as it streaked past Mars.

After only one year of operations, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission has begun to unravel the mystery of why galaxies take on different shapes and how these different shapes relate to each ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

Nearly 2½ centuries ago, in December 1781, musical composer and amateur astronomer William Herschel was scanning his telescope through the skies over ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

Amazing views of Jupiter over the years via the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons of Io, Ganymede and hazy Uranus can be ...

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini North telescope and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility observations of Neptune and Uranus may have revealed why they differ in color. Credit: Directed by: Bethany ...

Every generation of science teachers has faced the same cosmic dilemma: how do you say Uranus without triggering a room full of laughter? The seventh planet from the Sun may be an ice giant, but its ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

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