Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

PRIMA is more than a hundred times more sensitive than previous missions, such as the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

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 ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. Taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the display is a composite of 800,000 frames, showing ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Nebulae exist in various types, including emission, reflection, and dark nebulae. The Orion Nebula is among the most famous and easily visible examples. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...