NASA’s $17.5 mn Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to answer humanity’s ultimate question: Are we alone? With ...

Astronomy’s future hangs in the balance as a massive renewable energy project threatens to flood one of the world’s darkest ...

With new images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...

The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

With the installation of a charged particle detector on Dec. 3, 2024, all 10 of NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration ...

NASA is one step closer to scanning exoplanet atmospheres with the Pandora mission. This satellite is well on its way to ...

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A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

About 13 billion light-years away there is a supermassive black hole actively sending out a spectacular beam of energy directly towards Earth. Interestingly, this isn't just any black hole; it's a ' ...

The tradition of star chart mapping in Africa extends far back in history, suggesting that ancient African cultures were keen ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic ...