NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution infrared snapshots, enabling astronomers to study some of the universe's biggest ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

How did the universe begin? How do planets form and galaxies develop? Could life exist anywhere else in the cosmos? Questions that have long eluded astronomers could finally be answered with the ...

For nearly 20 years, astronomers have puzzled over the true nature of an object they spied back in 2006. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has solved this mystery. On January 12, 2006, astronomers ...

The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and profound questions about the nature and fate of the universe. Based on measurements of the speed of distant ...

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid ...

Dr. Giovanni Fazio, from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory discusses the Spitzer Space Telescope. Launched on 25 August 2003, the telescope is producing an exciting new view of the Universe ...

A zero pressure NASA balloon in Antarctica of the type that could be used by the LSU-led team would use to study nearby red dwarf stars. Some 75 percent of all stars in the solar neighborhood are ...

NASA’s decision to shut down a $1 billion infrared space telescope, even as it continued to send back spectacular images, was not an act of scientific indifference but a hard calculation about risk, ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...