During his time in microgravity, Pettit, an inveterate tinkerer, said he likes to spend his free time either doing ...

The world’s most advanced solar telescope just unlocked a new level of discovery with the first light from its Visible ...

The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope is set for launch in 2027, NASA details the three main surveys it will conduct over ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

There’s more to studying outer space than looking through telescopes and analyzing the mineral compounds in samples collected ...

A year ago, in celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. Also known as Messier 76 ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope, operated by ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

By releasing everything, the team hopes to see a much larger pool of scientists comb through the data ... remarkable that we can look up at the sky with our telescopes and try to answer one ...

Or take a road trip and visit Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson for a glimpse through world-class telescopes, or head to Mount Lemmon SkyCenter for an unforgettable stargazing experience. If ...