Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

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

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt's Lazuli, the first private space telescope in history, could fly to space as soon as 2029.

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope supports the existence of a supermassive black hole moving at 2.2 million mph, leaving behind a trail of stars and gas, researchers report.

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...