Behold the mysterious objects populating the "low surface brightness universe" that the latest radio telescopes are beginning ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme temperature changes the massive 'hot Jupiter'-type planet may make it rain iron at ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

From flaring black holes to strange early galaxies, the Webb telescope is showing us the wonders of the universe like never before.

A shockingly bright Nova explosion occurred right on cue, but its brilliance and strange chemical signature baffled ...

A team of scientists at the University of Utah has designed a flat lens that matches the power of traditional curved lenses ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...

For centuries, telescopes have relied oncurved glass lenses to bend light and bring the cosmos into focus. While effective, these traditional lenses come with a major drawback—the more powerful they ...

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...