NASA recently selected the PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) project as one of two candidates for its new ...

Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope, was closely observed in 1986 during a ... Alongside the discovery of ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

The Local Hot Bubble was first suggested over 50 years ago, with scientists theorising that a series of supernovas - massive ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star system ... and the probability of life arising and reaching a ...

Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) ...