In 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter ...

Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...

The UK Astronomy Technology Centre has been tasked with developing the first scientific apparatus for the Extremely Large ...

An old galaxy reveals clusters of young stars that have formed in an unusually synchronized fashion, challenging the idea ...

SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship carrying CoronaGraph and CODEX, a solar observation telescope ... Space Station through an automatic robotic arm over three days from the 9th. Unlike conventional corona ...

The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...

A "dead star" neutron star has been spotted spinning 716 times a second, astonishing astronomers who say it is the joint ...

They're known to rotate quickly, but scientists just found an extreme example of a neutron star spinning faster than a ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside ...

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes ...