The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Launched into Earth's orbit last June, GOES-19 is the newest addition to NOAA's fleet, equipped with a sensor called the ...

Researchers and students from the University of Würzburg are tracking asteroids with a telescope on the Hubland Campus. The measurements are very ...

To make space servicing safer and more efficient, researchers created a fuel-efficient, collision-free trajectory ...

A rare full seven-planet alignment will be visible in the early night sky between Feb. 22 and 28. We have the tips you need ...

Findings from Brown University researchers, published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, provide astronomers with a new method to identify and filter out unwanted radio ...

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to the planet to minimal levels, but the extraordinary close approach will now offe ...

Einstein Probe captures a rare X-ray flash from an unusual celestial pair. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The European ...

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

At Vandenberg Space Force Base, preparations are underway for a mission to send a new NASA telescope into space.

The information collected by the Pandora satellite will assist NASA researchers to verify measurements taken by the space agency's James Webb Space Telescope and future NASA missions that search ...