An illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The NASA observatory was designed to settle essential questions in ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most impressive pieces of technology ever made, but that doesn't mean it needs ...

When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may be close to solving the mystery of "little red dots" in the early ...

Do habitable exoplanets exist that possess life as we know it? Scientists have pondered this longstanding question ever since the first exoplanet was confirmed in the mid-1990s, and this will be the ...

Flagstaff, Ariz.- Our home solar system may be down by a planet with the recent reclassification of Pluto, but the number of giant planets discovered in orbit around other stars continues to grow. Now ...

A new compact X-ray telescope may finally give scientists the first complete map of the Moon’s elemental composition, ...

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

Scientists have detected gamma rays from the Crab Nebula, the most famous of supernova remnants, using a next-generation telescope that opens the door for astrophysicists to study some of the most ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American My research centers on the search for the ...

Astronomers have catalogued more than five thousand planets orbiting distant stars, and a handful of them defy almost ...