The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes.

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that that for years has captivated scientists searching for ...