Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. Each satellite carries a camera, which acts like a synchronized, single, virtual instrument with ...

The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles ... Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus Oct. 11, 2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights ...