“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

FRBs are sporadic, intense flashes of radio wave energy that can be brighter than entire galaxies. In just thousandths of a ...

NASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities in certain aspects. With a ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

And this strange new world is tantalizingly close: At scarcely 20 light-years from Earth, it’s within reach of deeper, more direct scrutiny by future space telescopes, beckoning astronomers to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space telescope epic. It ...

The Webb Space Telescope mission is threatened—not by anything in the desolate outskirts of the Sun, but by potential budget cuts. Webb is performing better than expected, astronomers say, but ...