Stargazing can stimulate an interest in space in kids and lead to a passion for science. But rural schools often lack the ...

Space telescopes have always been defined as much by their rockets as by their mirrors. When every kilogram to orbit costs a ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

Mizzou scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found unusual "platypus galaxies" that could change what we know ...

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

Virtual Telescope Project's 3I/ATLAS image reveals new details of the third interstellar comet, reshaping scientific views on ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

T he Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been pivotal to progress in the last three decades of astronomy and cosmology.

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...