NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2022 YS5 is approaching. The space rock will make its closest pass on 17 July.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

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

Compound, or catadioptric, telescopes combine lenses and mirrors for a compact option, suitable for both planetary and ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up close.

NKT’s announcement stated, “This achievement, conducted with NASA/JPL’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstrator, marks a significant leap forward in high-data-rate communication across ...

ESA, the European Space Agency, successfully established Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link with NASA’s Psyche mission using a high-power fiber laser system from NKT Photonics. This ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

India’s Gaganyatri returns to Earth! Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla becomes the first Indian to visit the ISS, splashing down safely near San Diego aboard SpaceX’s “Grace” capsule.Mike Massimino, ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...