Called SPHEREx, the instrument will map 450 million galaxies and search for water molecules that may be clinging to space dust ...

A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours.

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus discovered by UCL researchers in 2019 exhibit magnetic and ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its trip ...

NASA's BioNutrients series of experiments is testing ways to use microorganisms to make nutrients that will be needed for ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic ...

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting the planet Saturn, boosting its position to the top of the Solar System’s ...

Astronomers at the University of Arizona have discovered more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed at a time when ...

NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution ...