The new 8.5-foot telescope is set to launch this Tuesday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a clear objective: to ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery: a blazar, a highly active and luminous galactic nucleus powered by a ...

A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...

The planet WASP-121b is extreme. Its a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star50 times ...

Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...

Scientists mapped exoplanet WASP-121b’s atmosphere, revealing extreme winds and hidden metals. Iron and titanium appear ...

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

For centuries, telescopes have relied oncurved glass lenses to bend light and bring the cosmos into focus. While effective, ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...

New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...