In theory, you could build enormous observatories on the Moon and see further and more clearly than ever before. It's not ...

Arizona State University continues its rapid rise in planetary astronomy, welcoming two new 51 Pegasi b Fellows to its exoplanet research team in fall 2025. The Heising-Simons Foundationawarded the ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

Space exploration is set to see significant advancements in 2025 with major missions including India's Gaganyaan, NASA's ...

The observatory at the institute building is located in the dome of the Viktor-Franz-Hess-Building, which was already built in February 1986. In 1992 we started the planning work and the telescope ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

The circumstances need to be right, but modeling suggests finding biosignatures in the atmospheres of planets orbiting nearby ...

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a project to build a new generation ground-based gamma-ray observatorium. It will ...

Chinese scientists have proposed the idea of establishing a radio telescope array on the far side of the Moon. According to ...

During its trial phase, the CMP Phase II demonstrated high reliability, Li said. It captured the May 2024 super geomagnetic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope could potentially detect signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds, possibly the most ...