NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...

The newest visitor is 416 million miles from the sun, out near Jupiter, and heading this way at a blistering 37 miles per ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

We really got that wrong. We spent a lot of time analyzing data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and this data had convinced us beyond a reasonable ...