American space agency NASA launched the Pandora telescope that will use a new approach to look at distant exoplanets in ...

If you judge things from a mathematical perspective, and you throw in probabilities, there is no chance in freezing hell we are alone in this Universe of ours. Yet, despite decades of looking at the ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved an unprecedented feat: capturing the sharpest image ever recorded of a distant star’s disk—without using a telescope array. The breakthrough was made possible by a novel ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing ...

But what really excites the study team is that their new device achieved such a high level of detail on its very first use. They believe that the small device captured the "sharpest-ever measurement ...

NASA scientists have devised a new way to use planets that cross, or "transit," the face of their parent stars to investigate stellar "spottiness." The new technique, called the "StarryStarryProcess," ...

ROCKWOOD, Texas – During the day, this patch of land in sparsely populated central Texas is not remarkable. Eleven buildings, nearly identical, look like bland, oversize backyard sheds. Several large ...

Observing the night sky can get kids interested in astronomy and STEM careers. Jeremy Thomas/Unsplash The night sky has long ...