The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.
Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...
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A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...
The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...
All the major elements of NASA’s next flagship space telescope are now under one roof as NASA says its development remains on cost and schedule.
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 ...