Today in the history of astronomy, the U.S. scores a win in the Space Race.

Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with an ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

In a former cattle field in rural central Texas, a startup called Starfront has quietly built what it claims is the world’s ...

How early missions like Pioneer and Voyager turned spacecraft into time capsules, carrying Earth's story across the stars.

The images were captured from the International Space Station. The post Astronaut shares jaw-dropping cosmic photos from ...

Satellite data allows meteorologists to keep track of the location, structure and intensity of severe weather, helping to ...

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

The Irish National Opera has described “Mars” as “about space colonization, reactionary futurism, pronatalism, the madness of ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the galaxy – a technique that could be useful for interstellar missions ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the thing, point telescopes at it, argue about it. It's going to be fun." ...

The university’s critical contribution allows the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to fulfill its mission as a high-tech research tool that is revolutionizing how we explore worlds beyond our own.