The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The new images—of when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old—show the "first steps towards making the earliest stars and ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and plants. The chemicals are particularly intriguing as a potential sign of life ...

From 2035, the Einstein Telescope will be able to study gravitational waves with unprecedented accuracy. For the telescope, ...

The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years lit up the sky last night as humanity, forever fascinated with the Earth ...

Telescopes have multiple moving parts, finding celestial bodies is harder than it sounds, and some of the most advanced features can just get in the way if you’re simply hoping for a better look ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

NASA's newest space telescope will scan the entire sky in a range of near-infrared wavelengths to help astronomers better understand the evolution of the universe and search for promising spots for ex ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can even devour other black holes. And now, one scientist thinks there’s a chance ...

The SPHEREx telescope is relatively small but will provide ... the Milky Way. In the coldest parts of our galaxy, the molecules that create life (such as water, carbon dioxide and methanol ...