Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

Scott Bolton says he first dreamed of traveling through the galaxy when he was a boy camping out under the stars. Brent Humphreys Jupiter guards ... s team designed an elliptical orbit that ...

The planet Jupiter stood almost at the zenith ... the poles of a massive black hole at the center of this giant elliptical galaxy. (Nothing can escape from inside a black hole, but its ...

They're classified as elliptical spiral and irregular. What are these, Liam? Galaxies. Galaxies ... she was the wife and sister of Jupiter who worshiped Kyle. Kara. No, no. Sorry.

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Hubble’s 35‑year celebration brings a vibrant reimagining of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing hidden dust lanes and far‑flung ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...