Group set up by Harvard professor Avi Loeb to advise White House, Pentagon, FBI and American intelligence community on ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has identified 31 ancient quasars, including the two earliest ever ...

For the first time, the rotation of a disk where planets are born has been directly observed by mapping the emission of dust ...

Quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — are powered by supermassive black holes at the heart of early galaxies.

"This is the first time that we've been able to predict in human history an asteroid visibly passing by the Earth." ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found. Two of these ...

A satellite coating made from one of the world's darkest materials could help tackle a growing threat to astronomy, according ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...

T he cosmological principle states that, on the largest scales, the universe is uniform and isotropic. In other words, it ...

A mission to rescue one of NASA's storied space observatories from falling to Earth has launched on a daring, ...

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is designed to capture and boost NASA's Swift observatory back to a safe altitude.

TESS uses the transit method. When a planet passes in front of its stars, it dims the starlight by a small fraction. If this dimming repeats at regular intervals, you have a likel ...