While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

TNO's Eleonie van Schreven brings together all the necessary expertise for the development of the TANGO satellite.

The US space agency's megaphone-shaped SPHEREx - short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...

In the primordial darkness, after the Big Bang, nothing drifted but a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. It wasn't until stars ...

Federal President Steinmeier visits Chile's observatories threatened by industrial pollution, emphasizing the need for ...

25, 2025 — New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of ...

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

A team of scientists at the University of Utah has designed a flat lens that matches the power of traditional curved lenses ...

The telescope is peering at stars and galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. "We're going to see the very first stars and galaxies ...

Engineers developed a groundbreaking flat lens that helps telescopes to capture color while detecting light from far away stars ...