The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

Scale in the universe is hard to understand from a purely human perspective. Many times, the math just doesn't sit well with ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient ...

The Red Planet meets the distant ice giant Uranus in the constellation Taurus, visible together in any optics early this ...

Vikram‑1 is a multi‑stage, seven‑storey‑tall orbital launch vehicle constructed with an all‑carbon composite structure.

When NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, launched into orbit in 2016, none of the University of ...

The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin ...

Bloomberg reported that the upcoming mission will be a partially commercial flight, with the company planning to begin fully ...

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...