Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Your last chance to see a supermoon in 2025 is approaching quickly. The full moon is scheduled to appear this week on ...

It's almost become expected that many space telescopes and probes can have "extended missions." Both Voyagers are still sending data back 40+ years after their five-year primary mission ended. But ...

A two-decade-old NASA telescope is on an unstable orbit, and there is a 90 percent chance that it might come burning down in ...

NASA's nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has made another set of critical strides toward launch. This fall, ...

During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

NASA’s Swift space telescope is running out of altitude, but a privately funded spacecraft is being readied to push it higher ...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third verified visitor to enter our Solar System from beyond the stars, has seized worldwide interest, thanks to its developing tail, new scientific findings, and ...

Harvard astrophysicist Dr Avi Loeb tells ABP Live that 3I/ATLAS shows several odd behaviours, from unusual jets to rare ...