"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...
"The question 'Are we alone?' is one of the most significant questions, not just in the history of science, but in the history of humanity." ...
SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
The Hubble telescope is yielding new clues to the evolutionary history of Andromeda, and it looks markedly different from the Milky Way's history. Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies ...
One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...
(Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute) Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a ... at a distance of 2.5 million light years away—equal to the diameter of the Milky Way disk times 25. In ...