NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

A massive asteroid, 2025 FA22, will safely pass Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 4.6 million miles. Initially ...

Moroccan astrophysicist Meriem El Yajouri has officially joined NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

How Will Roman Map the Interstellar Medium? Why is it difficult to see through the galaxy? Starlight is blocked by dust ...

Astronomers uncover a cosmic mystery: an extra image in an Einstein Cross points to a massive dark matter halo.

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...

The Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) isn’t a new idea. Conceived in the early 2000s, the project aimed to deliver ...

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

When Rutgers theoretical astrophysicist Charles Keeton first saw an unusual picture shared by his colleague, he was intrigued ...