Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a young star known as PDS 453. Results of the new study, published on the ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to settle key questions on exoplanets (a planet outside ...

These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...