Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and also the closest planet to the Sun. Mercury orbits the Sun at an incredibly fast speed, averaging nearly 106,000 miles per hour. These are just a few of the many interesting facts about this planet.
When NASA's Artemis I mission successfully launches into space and begins its journey around the moon in 2022, there won't be any astronauts on board — instead, there will be two adult-sized mannequins.
What does the sun revolve around is a question that many people are interested in. Does the sun rotate? Let's find out together!
The universe is an almost absolute vacuum. Why is that? Let's learn about the vacuum of the universe together!
Exoplanets are planets located outside the Solar System.
A stunning new image sent back from the world's most expensive space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, shows the moment two galaxies are about to collide.
Will the Universe end in a Big Freeze, a Big Rip – or something even stranger? Take a look into the distant future with astronomers from the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
On Earth, a compass always points north—but when you drift outside our planet's magnetosphere, things get more complicated. So which way does a compass point when you're off Earth?
The VLT Survey Telescope has just brought the astronomy community a stunning new image, showing the magnificence of an area with a very interesting name: the Running Chicken Nebula.
The newly discovered galaxy is named JADES-GS-z14-0.
These sinister yet hauntingly beautiful eyes appear in a new Halloween-themed image, using data from both the Hubble Space Telescope and the world's most expensive space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope.
This stunning image shows a fiery object called the Rosette Nebula located 5,000 light-years from Earth, and was captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) instrument on the Víctor M. Blanco 4m Telescope in Chile.
The universe is truly amazing, partly because of its enormous size, and also because of the mysteries that are beyond human imagination.
The Hubble Space Telescope has recently encountered some operational problems, forcing scientists to change the way it operates.
Exoplanets are planets located outside the Solar System.
July 12 marked two years since the first images taken by the most expensive space telescope in history, the James Webb Space Telescope, were released.
The Hubble Space Telescope has continued to demonstrate its irreplaceable importance in the field of astronomical research, bringing back to humanity a unique photo showing the rare beauty of the Tarantula Nebula.
Throughout the history of human astronomical research, one of the most familiar and studied objects is the Moon.
Instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are allowing scientists to look further back into cosmic history than ever before, exploring extremely distant objects like galaxies that formed in the first few hundred million years of the universe.
The Hubble Space Telescope has continued to demonstrate its irreplaceable importance in the field of astronomical research, bringing back a stunning image of what was once considered a nuisance to astronomers: cosmic dust.
A stunning image of the star cluster RCW 38 was captured by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) telescope system in Chile, revealing impressive detail of the object located 5,500 light-years away.
Besides their daily tasks of conducting a series of scientific experiments in microgravity conditions every day, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) sometimes also spend time admiring the scenery from “million dollar” views as an effective form of stress relief.