The Giant Magellan Telescope offers sharper images, efficient light use, and the ability to find Earth-like planets.

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This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

If you feel like you've seen more of the northern lights painting the night sky lately, you'd be right—and there's an ...

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

But new research from the University of Chicago is urging caution. After analyzing data from multiple observations of the ...

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...

In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they'd found a molecule in a faraway planet's atmosphere that ...

Small companion galaxies around our neighboring Andromeda galaxy appear to stretch and point toward Earth in a fascinating ...

Described by Capture the Atlas as an "extraordinary milestone," the image One in a Billion, was captured by NASA astronaut ...

It's an evocative idea that has long bedevilled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and ...