NASA and the European Space Agency launched an astronomical revolution. When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky ...

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

NASA has launched a new infrared space telescope into orbit that is set to rival the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in its ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14.5 times each day as it images a single, circular strip of the sky. Given ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange object in our galaxy that flashes every 44 minutes—and it’s unlike anything we’ve seen ...

NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor—an infrared, space-based observatory solely dedicated to hunting asteroids—will be launched in the next few years, to the excitement of many planetary ...

Near-infrared light can penetrate thick dust ... Lee and the PHANGS-JWST and PHANGS-HST Teams Other images from the space observatory capture distant and primordial parts of the cosmos, like ...

To fully understand the evolution of our universe we need to observe the sky in both optical and longer wavelength infrared light." The Herschel Space Observatory was tasked with observing the ...

Well, those wavelengths lie in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum — and on April 1, NASA announced its brand new infrared space telescope ... "This is the observatory's full ...

The leading infrared space observatory spends about a quarter of its time studying exoplanets. By analyzing another planet's atmosphere, scientists can tell a great deal about a world, including ...