Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

NASA plans to launch an artificial star into space by 2029 for better telescope calibration and precise measurement of ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

Oleg Kononenko has safely returned to Earth following a record-breaking year-long stint onboard the International Space ...

The Andromeda galaxy is the Milky Way's closest neighbor, and the most distant object that can be seen with the naked eye ...

The newly discovered planetary system consists of a white dwarf about half the mass of our sun and an Earth-like planet in an ...

Unfortunately, scientists are still unsure if life could survive there for long. Some argue that red dwarf suns are too ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, aims to capture high-resolution images of galaxies and cosmic ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and ...