An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that distort the image, but the ...

So scientists found a workaround. Instead of building one gigantic telescope, they placed smaller telescopes far apart and ...

Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, a small icy body orbiting Jupiter’s neighborhood, did something astronomers rarely witness ...

Nasa has completed the assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This mission will map the universe 100 times faster than Hubble.

3I/ATLAS has highlighted the incredible versatility of the many craft humans have sent out into our solar system.

This month, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir embarked on her second journey to the ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

PROOF of alien life is one step closer to being found thanks to a massive earthquake-proof telescope that’s near completion ...

In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible — low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by ...

In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...