March's third, or final quarter moon phase will occur at 5:39 a.m. EDT (0939 GMT), as the moon appears in Earth 's sky with its left half illuminated by direct sunlight and its right masked in shadow, ...

The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes caught a stunning portrait of a dying star at the heart of the Cat's Eye Nebula.

A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon’s surface today. The Moon’s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening. Two of our best ways of measuring the cosmic expansion rate, the ...

The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved. Reading time 2 minutes The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a ...

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A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming within collapsing clouds of gas and dust. When you purchase through links ...

Deep in the digital bedrock of 35 years of Hubble observation archives, a new AI tool has uncovered more than 800 previously undocumented cosmic anomalies in a scant two and a half days. Using a ...

The universe is so vast, and the difficulty of discovering all that there is out in the cosmos is so great, that one might as well count all the grains of sand in the Sahara. But now, with the help of ...

Lensing in action: A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There is an entire galaxy at the centre of each image, and the bright points in rings around them are gravitationally ...