Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite view of spiral galaxy NGC 1637 from the JWST and Hubble telescopes reveals the site ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

The new moon will see dark skies for the peak of the Orionid meteor shower, while three days will pass in front of the red star Antares for observers in South America.

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it exploded. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the international team ...

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...

On August 29th, the waxing crescent Moon is positioned in Libra, approaching Scorpius; observations of the globular cluster M71 in Sagitta are recommended, noting its relatively loose structure ...