The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...
NASA's SPHEREx mission is gearing up for an exciting journey aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aiming to uncover the mysteries of the universe's early moments and the origins of water on planets. Over ...
The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...