In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

MIT physicists propose that early dark energy, a mysterious force, might be the key to resolving the "Hubble tension" and the ...

At the Quad Cancer Moonshot event on Sunday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese remembered the Australian radio telescope in Parkes that carried the images of a “defining moment in human ...

F or the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the ...

An newly discovered asteroid will be captured by Earth's gravity this fall. The "mini-moon" will spend about two months in ...

LTT 1445 Ac is roughly the size of Earth and about 22 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The planet orbits the ...

Comets take the name of the discoverer, whether that be a human or an automated telescopic survey that robotically inspects ...

I’ve had a love affair with the planet Saturn ever since I first saw it through my first telescope almost 60 years ago. Even ...

XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years ...

The first results from JAXA's XRISM X-ray telescope are out, and they reveal new features of the superheated gas around a ...

MIT scientists say that dark energy could be the missing factor that explains some of the most perplexing phenomena in the ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around ...