During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

What: New JWST observations probe the possible atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 e, an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a ...

Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange ...

November nights will bring us back to a visitor from interstellar space. If you don't know what we're talking about, you must be living under a rock at the ...

Blue Origin used its New Glenn rocket to launch twin probes that will study Mars' atmosphere and ionosphere — and then ...

For the first time in more than five years, humanity has launched a mission to Mars — but it won't be arriving at the Red ...

Collecting meteorites on Earth is often described as the cheapest form of space exploration. Scientists now have over five ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...

The NSF NOIRLab-operated Gemini North telescope captured stunning imagery of galaxies UGC 12914 and UGC 12915, aka 'Taffy ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

With the promise of detecting primordial black holes formed at the dawn of time, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to offer ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may ...