The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has quietly crossed a threshold that turns a long‑planned mission into a near‑term ...

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while launching more missions and increasing the total science return. If ESCAPADE ...

Satellite megaconstellations are increasingly impacting astronomical observations. Bright satellite streaks are compromising ...

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...

Texas Tech assistant professor Elias Aydi led an international team of astronomers in publishing new findings on how stellar explosions, called novae, unfold. Using a high-resolution imaging technique ...

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.