The James Webb Space Telescope will soon turn its eyes to the solar system’s king, the gas giant Jupiter.

The moon’s ‘Golden Handle’ is visible this Saturday (July 9). The striking feature is created when low-angled sunlight strikes the Montes Jura mountain range.

Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands lying in the North Atlantic Ocean, are featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

ESA’s new medium-lift Vega-C rocket is nearly ready for its inaugural flight. You can follow live on ESA Web TV. Flight VV21 will lift off as soon as 13 July at

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Here are the best telescopes for kids, the top models for budding astronomers, including the best Amazon Prime Day deals.

Suborbital space tourism provider Virgin Galactic announced a deal Wednesday (July 6) to build a new set of carrier planes.

Here are the best telescopes for beginners, all the top models and brands suited to those without much experience, plus deals leading up to Amazon Prime Day next week.

Tubi presents a new flying saucer documentary, “Aliens, Abductions, and UFOs: Roswell at 75.”

A citizen scientist used old telescope data to find a trove of binary star systems that include what are sometimes dubbed “failed stars.”

There were no injuries reported, and the cause is under investigation.