(WHTM) — With all the recent excitement about the James Webb Telescope, it can be easy to forget the Hubble Space Telescope is still up there churning out scientific discoveries. Until it com… ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

On August 8, 2024, the sun emitted a highly-energetic X1.3-class solar flare. X-class flares like this one are incredibly ...

"This explosion gave off more energy in a few seconds than the sun will over its entire life." Astronomers have used a newly ...

If there is life on Proxima Centauri b, it could take the Extremely Large Telescope as little as 10 hours to detect its influence on the planet’s atmosphere. Observations will take longer for ...

It's coming. The sun is about to pull another disappearing act across the nation, turning day into night during April’s total solar eclipse.

A team of astronomers has traced one of the universe’s most powerful explosions—classified as a Fast X-ray Transient—back to a time when the cosmos was only 1.8 billion years old. The event, named ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the Sun’s tiniest magnetic loops, hidden inside a massive solar flare.