Two more of NASA's space telescopes got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar interloper that captured the world's ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behaviour of ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director ...

Massive stars like these are also key players in the cosmic drama of gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time first ...

A rare black moon darkens the sky on Aug. 23, 2025, followed by a close encounter between the young crescent and Mars just ...

A “new” moon is when none of the Moon’s face is illuminated and the far side is illuminated instead. This happens when the ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...