"Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly's mission design, fabrication, integration and test plans are all ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that ...

The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

This week is International Dark Sky Week. Lights that are aimed upwards or not properly capped illuminate the atmosphere and ...

NASA's C-130 Hercules, fondly known as the Herc, went wheels up at 9:45 a.m., Friday, April 18, as it departed from its ...

Washburn University will be holding a Space Celebration event this weekend where attendees can do observatory tours, ...