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

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

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

TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...

An international team of astronomers says it has discovered supermassive, dust-shrouded black holes in seven galaxies, using a combination of telescopes on the Earth and in space.

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

Astronomers from Pune's NCRA-TIFR have discovered a rare pulsar, PSR J1617–2258A, in the ancient star cluster M80 using India's upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT).

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...