James Webb Telescope spots a rare sight on an extraterrestrial body: clouds
For centuries astronomers have been curious about this moon of Saturn, and thanks to new telescopes like James Webb, we're ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope goes live with a stunning first picture, peering 13 billion years into the past
This is a momentous occasion.
Researchers have just found the biggest galaxy ever discovered — and it’s big alright
We don't really know why these ultra-big structures get so big -- but finding more of them could help us ...
Why do stars twinkle, or do they twinkle at all? For astronomers, this is important
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Our most sophisticated radio telescope found over 500 radio signals in the sky in a year
There could be hundreds of such events, unnoticed, every day.
Uranus is leaking radiation, researchers say
Some headline formats never get old.
It will still take ten years, but the world’s largest telescope just got the thumbs up
This could help answer some of the biggest questions of the universe
Liquid telescope could help us see the very first stars
Mothballed on NASA's shelves were the plans to view stars 13 billion years in the past. Now, a group of ...
Europe’s most powerful solar telescope lets us see its surface and spots up close
Up close and per-Sun-al.
Comet NEOWISE Comes into Focus for a Close-up
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning close-up image of comet NEOWISE, which recently captured the public’s imagination becoming ...
How a broken cable almost destroyed a thousand-foot telescope
Weather-related phenomenons are taking a toll on the telescope
NASA plans to set a telescope on the far side of the Moon
It's part of a set of innovative projects funded by the space agency.
Focusing on Arrokoth promises to reveal the Kuiper Belt’s secrets
The results from New Horizon's New Year's Day Flyby of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth are in, and it could just ...
Astronomers capture the most detailed image of the sun
It looks like caramel corn. Yum!
New European exoplanet-hunting telescope launches into space
The ESA’s CHEOPS telescope has finally launched kick-starting the next phase in exoplanet investigations.
Saturn is now the planet with the most moons
If having most moons was a race, Saturn just took an unexpected lead.
NASA finally puts the James Webb telescope together
The James Webb spacecraft is scheduled to launch in 2021, when it will become the world's most powerful space science ...
How fast is the universe expanding? We may need to recalculate
It's one of the fundamental universal features -- and we're still struggling to understand it.
Why the SpaceX satellite fleet could spell major headaches for astronomers
It's an unexpected side effect of a useful plan.
Every point of light in this photo is a galaxy
Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
How to “Weigh” Baby Planets
Weighing without using a scale.
Meet TESS — the new exoplanets detective
NASA's future planet hunter has arrived -- and it's set for glory.
Astronomers find the most distant star ever, looking through a galactic magnifying glass
The findings might help piece together the evolution of the universe.
You can search for your own exoplanets — Researchers make huge dataset available
The search for extraterrestrial life is about to get some new recruits -- us.
The GLEAM team shows us how space would look if we could see radio waves
Hint: it would be spectacular.
China finished work on FAST, the world’s largest radio telescope
Built to boldly probe where no man has probed before.
China is building the world’s largest radio telescope – and it’s almost done
China is currently building the world's largest radio telescope, that will be capable to detect signs of life from billions ...
Millions of supermassive black holes are hiding under thick blankets of dust and gas
Our Universe may be riddled with millions of supermassive black holes, a new study reports. The reason why we haven't ...
Earth-like planet spotted for the first time with a ground-based telescope
Space-based telescopes have been used to spot planets (even Earth-like planets) for years now, but this is the first time ...
Mind-Blowing $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope begins construction in Hawaii
After years of planning and engineering schemes, the construction of the $1.4 billion telescope in Hawaii has finally begun. The ...
The most exotic material on the planet: researchers find dust from beyond the solar system
Researchers believe they have found seven dust specs from outside the solar system. This is the first time we have ...
Europe will blast the top of a Chilean mountain to install the first telescope which directly studies signs of life on other planets
You just gotta love European engineers! They're about to blast away the top of a Chilean mountain to create a site ...
A strange, lonely planet found without a star
An international discovered a young, exotic, rogue planet - PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has ...
Massive dark energy survey launched set to probe its secrets
Dark energy is the mysterious force that drives the Universe's expansion at an ever increased pace. Probing and understanding this ...
World’s largest telescope to be raised atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea summit
An artist's rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will become the world's biggest scope, at sunset. (TMT Observatory Corp.)l ...
Seeing stars during daytime – is it possible?
The short answer is, no. Not with the naked eye at least, but if you use a highly potent set ...
IBM to develop world’s most powerful computing system tasked with finding origins of Universe
Backed by an international consortium, ten years from now the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the world ...
International Megascience – world’s biggest telescope to be built
As far as science goes, most of the time size really does matter. Think of a tiny amateur telescope how ...
A star is born [great pics]
The nebula you are looking at is known as the North American nebula, and the pictures were taken with the ...
First time 360 view of the SUN
Forget the Moon - for the first time ever we have a full view of the star in our solar ...
The Kepler mission: searching for planets in the Goldilocks area
The Goldilocks area is one of the most interesting for astronomers throughout the known Universe, as it has great hope ...
Previously unseen huge structure located within our galaxy
Researchers have confirmed the presence of a previously undiscovered structure located in the center of the Milky Way, a discovery ...
12 Hubble pictures that will blow your mind
Just in case you haven't checked it out, the Hubble site has a very impressive collection of pictures that I ...
A solar tsunami set to generate celestial show tonight
A huge plasma eruption that took place on the Sun has caused a "solar tsunami" of ionized atoms that are ...
Obama sets Mars goal for America in less than 20 years
Barack Obama came out and said that it should be possible for NASA to send astronauts to Mars and bring ...
New planet close to size of Earth found
The Planet Researchers have long been interested in finding other planets that have approximately the same size as our mother ...
The rebirth of Hubble – Hubble’s first pics since Servicing Mission 4
Hubble has had a lot of problems in recent days, but now the telescope we love the most is up ...
Green visitor to pass through the solar system
Unfortunately for some, the green visitor is not an alien coming to greet us but something else, even though it ...
A 400 year old Moon map corrects history, making Galileo Galilei a runner up
As we learn (or at least should) at quite an early age, Galileo Galilei had quite the impact on science, ...
Beta Pictoris planet could finally be imaged
Beta Pictoris (β Pic / β Pictoris) is part of a group of hot young stars that have the same ...
