Looking further into the future, even bigger projects are on the horizon. NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, expected in ...

EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life.

NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve our search for habitable worlds.

3I/ATLAS first made news in July when scientists confirmed it as the third-ever observed interstellar interloper in our solar system. The space object further attracted the public's fascination again ...

Webb Telescope spots a carbon-rich disk around a distant planet, CT Cha b, offering rare clues to how moons may form.

The Roman Space Telescope's next generation coronagraph instrument will help deliver amazing views of exoplanets. Learn how it works. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will send the hunt for ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James ...

When the famous Coggia's Comet flashed across the sky in 1874, a Missouri astronomer named Carr Waller Pritchett made a wish.

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, to occur in a single day.