Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

The neutrino was 30 times more energetic than any other previously observed particle of its kind. Scientists still don’t know ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently made observations about galaxy clusters that will help shape our ...

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for ...

On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He ...