A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), local spin-off company Spaceoptix, ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...

Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

There could be life out there—way, way out there. Last Wednesday, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had discovered “compelling evidence” of a planet that is potentially habitable. The ...

In recent science news, killer whales demonstrate intelligence by using seaweed as grooming tools. Europe's satellite venture ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...