The days have been slowly shortening since the Summer Solstice in June, but the change becomes more apparent here in southern ...

The James Webb Space Telescope revisited Hubble's Ultra Deep Field, capturing infrared images revealing thousands of distant galaxies. JWST's observations, using instruments like NIRCam and MIRI, ...

Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been glimpsing some of the earliest epochs of cosmic ...

In this edition of WTOP’s monthly space feature, “What’s up in the sky?” Greg Redfern tells you how to see the moon, planets, ...

Today in the history of astronomy, the U.S. scores a win in the Space Race.

In a former cattle field in rural central Texas, a startup called Starfront has quietly built what it claims is the world’s ...

How early missions like Pioneer and Voyager turned spacecraft into time capsules, carrying Earth's story across the stars.

An astronaut has shared a jaw-dropping gallery of pictures taken in space. NASA's Don Pettit has gained a distinguished ...

Take a photograph of the night sky, far away from any urban lights, and you stand a good chance of capturing the telltale ...

For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for ...

The university’s critical contribution allows the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to fulfill its mission as a high-tech research tool that is revolutionizing how we explore worlds beyond our own.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...