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 ...

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

shortly after the big bang. In its studies closest to the here and now, SPHEREx will look for assorted ices throughout the Milky Way and its neighboring galaxies. To do so, the telescope will map ...