The universe is vast, mysterious, and breathtakingly beautiful. From the glow of distant galaxies to the quiet elegance of ...

This "blinking" between images allowed the astronomer to note ... in the solar system — in 2006 Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union, the Lowell ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. And with this new research, scientists ...

This "blinking" between images allowed the astronomer to note ... Assembly adopted a resolution to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. The reasoning was that it didn't satisfy one of three newly ...

According to NASA, multi-planet lineups are visible "every few years," but a seven-planet alignment is particularly uncommon, as each planet's orbit varies, with some moving more quickly and Mercury, ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. And with this new research, scientists have improved our understanding ...

In five years time, Hubble or the James Webb Space Telescope will collect more data to produce another image like this; by comparing the two images ... galaxy and form the dwarf galaxies there, a bit ...

If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust, swirling around newly formed stars across the Milky Way. Known as ...