The Geminid meteor shower put on a dazzling show this week, delighting skywatchers worldwide. The Geminids are one of the ...

Humanity is in the midst of a new era of spaceflight and cosmic discovery that is only just now beginning to dawn. In the years ahead, spacefarers will yearn to return to the moon and will embark on ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

The winter stars are like that. They're bright, sparkly and arrive "from a distance" low on the eastern horizon and gradually ...

Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main asteroid belt, significantly improving our ability to spot objects as little as 10 meters across. This new technique, ...

What was the Milky Way like billions of years ago? One way we can find out is by looking at the most distant galaxies in the ...

Enlightened people see themselves and all humans as fellow citizens of one world – travelling on the same planet spinning ...

Find out about the recent developments regarding the Roman Space Telescope and how they might bring us closer to ...

Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based ...

The idea of BHEX is to use a space-based telescope to collect even more detailed information from black holes, as there is ...

Scientists warn that our sun eject a massive, potentially deadly burst of solar radiation called a "superflare" any day now.