"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The system combines a large aperture telescope and short-wave infrared sensor to image satellites in orbit during the day, along with a specialized computer-controlled mount to compensate for the ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of supermassive black holes like never before.

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

China Einstein Probe EP astronomical satellite has for the first time in human history detected soft X-ray signals from an ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 1,60,000 light-years away and is between 10-20 percent as massive as the Milky ...

Paranal Observatory is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which comprises four telescopes each with a 27-foot (8.2-meter) mirror and four auxiliary telescopes with 6-foot (1.8-meter ...

Founded a little less than three years ago, K2 seeks to disrupt the production of large satellites by focusing on vertical ...