The RT-70 radio telescope in Crimea was once used to support missions to Venus and transmit messages to potential alien life ...

The two telescopes operate synchronously: Izaña-2 fires laser pulses at a piece of space debris high overhead, and Izaña-1 ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from outside the Solar System, might have been spewing gases for months ...

Researchers in Germany have developed a ring laser that tracks Earth's axis movements without telescopes or satellites.

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...

Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The ...

Based on the work of a student at Brigham Young University, origami theorists have unlocked a new set of patterns that could change space exploration ...

The latest research reveals the detailed mechanism of material being pulled into a black hole beyond the event horizon.

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

At the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Meredith Rawls makes sure reflected sunlight doesn’t ruin astronomical observations by the world’s newest sky-observing super-machine. Earlier this year, the $800 ...