It's a moment that's often been depicted in science fiction - but what would actually happen when extraterrestrials make ...

Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and ...

"A high point of our journey [has been] witnessing the entire telescope come together as an aligned system — a moment that ...

(NASA) – A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such ...

Two different space telescopes have looked at the same galaxy, so you can see the difference in how they observe the universe ...

Does someone on your holiday gift list have a passion for checking out the stars? WTOP space expert Greg Redfern has some ...

The PRIMA space telescope would observe the cosmos in far-infrared light, while AXIS would be an orbiting X-ray detector.

NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space in November when it re-entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up ...

Maj. Christopher N. Shingledecker, assistant professor of chemistry at Virginia Military Institute, is a member of a research ...

The Sombrero galaxy, which is about the size of the Milky Way, is positioned some 30 million light-years away. The Webb ...

The sharp resolution of Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) also brings into focus details of the galaxy’s outer ring, ...

The infrared-light image captured by the JWST's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the galaxy in a totally different way ...