While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

A timelapse has been released showing the newly discovered Tatooine-like planet HD 143811 AB b making part of its journey ...

NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completing assembly of the agency’s next flagship ...

Two new peer-reviewed papers claim thousands of unexplained light flashes in vintage Palomar telescope images show statistical ties to nuclear tests and UFO reports. Not everyone agrees with the paper ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image provided by NSF NOIRLab shows NGC 6302 ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation's NoirLab released the picture Wednesday. Snapped last month by the ...

An interstellar comet named 3I/ATLAS, originating from outside our solar system, is passing through. NASA recently released new images of the comet, which is being studied by astronomers worldwide.

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), those years amount to nearly 20—and now the ...

At the end of 2025, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave us an amazing look at Apep, a unique triple-star system that's pretty far away. It features a couple of huge, dying Wolf–Rayet stars ...

Remarkable new images from the James Webb Space Telescope have captured the first-ever view of four dust spirals surrounding the Wolf-Rayet stars in the Apep system. “Looking at Webb’s new ...