A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery: a blazar, a highly active and luminous galactic nucleus powered by a ...

Researchers Baffled After Drawing First-Ever 3D Map of Exoplanet’s Atmosphere, Reveals Never-Before-Seen Climate Every day, ...

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

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

Switzerland's ambassador to China has said the two nations enjoy "strong and stable relations" as they mark 75 years of ...

Dating back to the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, the first US spy satellites, as part of the Corona program, orbited the planet as low as 120 to 160 km (75 to 100 miles) above the Earth.

According to scientists from the University of Portsmouth, water first formed in the debris of supernova explosions 100 to ...

For centuries, the optic lens has bent light through translucent, curved material, but now flat lenses are reimagining the ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Beth Fabinsky, SPHEREx's deputy project manager, about the upcoming launch of a new telescope.

The accidental second discovery was made in the 1960s. At the time NASA was running Project Echo. This involved putting large ...

DARPA scientists are exploring ways to grow massive biological objects, such as telescope antennas or huge nets to snag ...