"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

With construction complete, the telescope will now move into final testing. Following testing, Roman will be packaged and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new chapter in planetary science, giving astronomers the ability to observe JWST exoplanets with a level of detail never before possible. Launched as ...

The Cold Supermoon, the second-largest full moon of 2025, rises in the east at twilight on Dec. 4, seeming to be higher than any other full moon this year. Part of a four-supermoon sequence, it ...

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 will release new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on November 19. The object is only the third interstellar visitor ever spotted in our solar system. The comet will make its closest ...

Anna Clinkman graduated with an advanced diploma from her Birmingham homeschool group. But when she got to college in the early 2000s, she had to take remedial math. “I literally did not understand ...

"This is a one-of-a-kind system with an incredibly rare orbital period." A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars in ...