NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.
On this date, Jan. 29, 1859, American astronomer William Cranch Bond died. Cranch and his son, George Phillps Bond, ...
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...
Early 2025 is a good time for skygazing and spotting up to seven planets in the night sky – if you have a little help.
Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...
The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.