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

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

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

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying PUNCH successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:10 P.M. EDT on March ...

Barnard’s Star is a legend in astronomy circles. Planet-hunters often say they have found a planet around it, but it turns ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

An international team of astronomers led by scientists from the Netherlands has shown that a white dwarf and a red dwarf ...

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

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

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 ...

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

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...