But from 260 miles above in space, he saw no trace of humanity — just desolation: a seemingly endless view of pure white ice.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

A group of astronauts whizzing around Earth from orbit are getting some pretty spectacular views of our planet's poles – and SpaceX is sharing a look.

SPHEREx's new images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...

NASA’s latest space telescope has officially begun its mission—and it’s already proving to be a powerful new eye on the ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Monday night, sending four amateur astronauts on an unprecedented journey around Earth’s ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...