Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on the Big Island’s Mauna Kea discovered a massive planet and a ...

Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the ...

It came from outer space. Interstellar space, to be precise. From somewhere beyond the influence of our sun, possibly from ...

The Hubble telescope peered into small patches of sky, revealing thousands of galaxies that our human eyes can’t see. Using a different technique, SPHEREx will unveil the light of hidden galaxies on a ...

Three years into its cosmic mission, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope continues to dazzle and inspire awe. Since July 2022, the advanced observatory has scoured the cosmos in otherwise invisible ...

Our planet is surrounded by a halo of ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye, a celestial phenomenon that scientists have been trying to understand for over half a century. This enigmatic glow, ...

A trio of researchers with the University of Manchester, Università di Roma 'La Sapienza' and Sorbonne Universities has sparked a major debate among cosmologists by claiming that data from the Planck ...

The 2025 NASA budget points to the beginning of the end for one of the agency’s longest-living space telescopes. Just a few months shy of turning 25, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may soon be no ...

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

Astronomers have already warned that SpaceX's Starlink satellite network contributes to blemishes on images from observatories on the ground even if its aim is to provide broadband internet. But this ...

BAE Systems says it has successfully delivered the “SPHEREx” space observatory to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, ahead of a planned launch in late February. Short for “Spectro-Photometer ...