The world’s greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

The indeterminate nature of the team's results means that JWST is far from finished with TRAPPIST-1e. The researchers hope to ...

"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years." To resolve nearby Earth-like ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA’s Webb Space ...

Astronomers have discovered something that shouldn't exist: a galaxy so jam-packed with stars that they smash into each other about once a month.

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...

Artist’s rendition of the CHIME radio telescope and its 'outriggers' localizing FRB 20250316A. Inset: The host galaxy (NGC 4141) as imaged by the MMT Observatory ...

So many fascinating pictures of space don’t actually come from NASA or even a satellite. They come from someone with a telescope and a camera. Astro photography is a cool hobby, but it can be ...

Astronomers have zoomed in on small loops of plasma within a powerful solar flare for the first time, potentially revealing ...

Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures ...

For weeks, Elena Adams has been leading her team at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, through ...