Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe.

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

Laser-based system allows quantum-encrypted information to be beamed across the globe, plus — an AI that can improve other ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

2024 — While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM ...

Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.

An X-ray signal that has puzzled scientists for 45 years was the "death knell" of a planet ripped apart by a white dwarf star, data from NASA's Chandra observatory has revealed.

New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite has shown that a planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf—one of the dimmest ...

The primary payload aboard the rocket will be a space telescope for the mission known ... Heliophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters. The satellite will provide more information about ...