AUSTIN, Texas - The world's most powerful telescope may live in Chile, but parts of the project call Texas home. The Giant ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe. Using two infrared space telescopes and a 23-year gap, scientists may have ...

Last week, NASA decommissioned a nearly 15-year-old spacecraft that discovered 400 near-Earth asteroids and comets, closing an important chapter in the agency’s planetary defense program. From its ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is launch-ready ahead of schedule, set to survey the infrared universe with a field of view 100 ...

The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) arrived today at the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for its launch next month aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. The observatory was ...

The Cat's Paw Nebula, also catalogued as NGC 6334 and sometimes called the Bear Claw Nebula ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly analyzed the surface of a distant super-Earth, revealing a ...

Astronomy Astronomers map one of the largest structures in the universe, hidden behind the Milky Way's 'Zone of Avoidance' Astronomy Hubble revisits stunning Trifid Nebula after 30 years, and spots a ...

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid ...