Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

I’m forever grateful to NASA for giving me an amazing 10 years. After four to five years in astrophysics, I was able to go to ...

Mark February 28 on your calendar.

NASA scientists have proposed something extraordinary: building the largest telescope ever made on the far side of the Moon.

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

Planned launch of 500,000 satellites could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

International Space Station, where astronauts have lived and worked for 25 years, is visible to us on Earth. How to see it ...

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where ...

The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early ...