Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, ...

The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...

"It's time we all realize that we are crew members on this spaceship called Earth and start to think about our role and ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding ...

With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do ...

Researchers at the University of Innsbruck are working intensively on preparations for the Euclid mission of the European ...

Within a hundred meters of the surface, there's enough sunlight ... and the boundary-pushing wonders captured by Hubble and the James Webb telescope—but some of our most important discoveries ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...