NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Two Russian Tu-95MS bombers fly over the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan on0, 2025.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Through the lens of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, scientists are zeroing in on the Hubble Constant, a vital ...

A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...

The unobstructed skies that gave Big Sky, Montana its name made for an appropriate setting for the release of two postage ...

Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...