T he cosmological principle states that, on the largest scales, the universe is uniform and isotropic. In other words, it ...
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found. Two of these ...
On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...
Quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — are powered by supermassive black holes at the heart of early galaxies.
Right now, a select group of high school students are mid-way through a science project at Albion College — ...
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 ...
A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of ...
The night sky above the world’s best observatories has long been prized for one thing above all: darkness. Now that darkness ...
A satellite coating made from one of the world's darkest materials could help tackle a growing threat to astronomy, according ...
Rubin Observatory LSST launched June 30, 2026, unleashing a nightly 7-million-alert sky survey powered by SLAC’s 60-second ...
NASA on Tuesday plans to launch a mission to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. A spacecraft is expected to push the ...
Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is designed to capture and boost NASA's Swift observatory back to a safe altitude.