Federal President Steinmeier visits Chile's observatories threatened by industrial pollution, emphasizing the need for ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system HH 1177 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESO ...

The first telescopes refracted light, and today reflectors dominate, but there is a third way to make light focus, and it ...

Designed as a medium-class mission within NASA’s Explorers program, SPHEREx was selected by NASA for funding and development ...

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

The new 8.5-foot telescope is set to launch this Tuesday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a clear objective: to ...

In the primordial darkness, after the Big Bang, nothing drifted but a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. It wasn't until stars ...

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

SPHEREx, an 8.5-foot telescope, is scheduled to be launched this Tuesday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Feb. 25, 2025 — New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact ...

The Eagle Nebula is a beautiful cloud of gas and dust in space, where new stars are born. NASA has captured some stunning and ...

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 ...