The SOAR Telescope sits on the peak of Cerro Pachón, part of the Chilean Andes mountain range. Recently, a rare winter storm swept across the Atacama desert, bringing snow to the driest place on Earth ...

The telescope peered into a single “toe bean” of the nebula, uncovering clusters of gas, dust and young stars.

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...

How does a star form from the cold, turbulent gloom of a molecular cloud? Three years have already passed since the James Webb Space Telescope has been revealing how, most recently by removing the ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Months after arriving in orbit thanks to a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, NASA’s newest space ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Space-based infrared detection technology is critical to space situational awareness, playing a significant role in noncooperative space object detection, threat perception, and space target ...