Eight years, three states, and two jobs after NASA's 2017 launch of its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of their oldest tools: the telescope’s mirror. A new study led by Dr. Heidi Newberg of ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of building our own telescope. One of our friends lived near a University, and they even had a summer ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve our search for habitable worlds.

On September 10, Zhuimi Technology announced the establishment of its Astronomy Business Unit (BU), systematically proposing ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine ...

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered ...

Some of these students will go on to lead their own laboratories—asking new questions, reimagining the tools they’ve ...

At this point, it's absolutely a contrarian position and not a rational one, but I think that could have been largely avoided if NSF and other government agencies had not spent the last 50 years ...

JWST data reveal first insights on TRAPPIST-1 e, a planet in the habitable zone that may have conditions suitable for ...