The Hubble Space Telescope, proclaimed by NASA to be the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo, was placed in orbit on this day in history, April 25, 1990.
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Astronomers say it should be visible in both hemispheres. The Eta Aquarids occur every year in early May.
Researchers have discovered a thick atmosphere enveloping a planet called 55 Cancri e, which is twice the size of Earth and located in a nearby solar system.
SpaceX's suits for astronauts embarking on the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission are sleek with advanced functionality, propulsion and life-support systems.
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet called WASP-193b that's larger than Jupiter but incredibly light and fluffy due to its composition of mostly light gases.
The Webb Space Telescope has made a new discovery, detecting the earliest known merger of black holes. One of the black holes is 50 million times more massive than the sun.