Humanity has made great strides in exploring the deep mysteries of space. "Space: The final frontier" were the iconic words spoken by Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the hit ...

It was a cloudy day on Titan. That was clear on the morning of Nov. 5 when Sébastien Rodriguez, an astronomer at the Université Paris Cité, downloaded the first images of Saturn’s biggest moon taken ...

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This year marked the end of a decades-long wait for astronomers. The James Webb Space Telescope is finally in action. The telescope, which launched in December 2021, released its first science data in ...

In October of 2022, telescopes picked up a jet of high energy from a supernova that exploded 1.9 billion light-years away from Earth. This gamma-ray burst is considered the brightest of all time, and ...

Earlier this year, NASA unveiled the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope — a frozen frame that represented the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the universe humanity has ever seen.

Astronomers spotted a ‘weird’ flash in February, equivalent to the light of more than 1,000 trillion suns. Astronomers spotted a ‘weird’ flash in February, equivalent to the light of more than 1,000 ...

The first scientific results are coming in, and the $10 billion instrument is working even better than astronomers had dared to hope. The star-forming region of the Tarantula Nebula, 340 light-years ...

Little more than a week had passed since Independence Day celebrations, but the crowd that had gathered at NASA’S Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland was as excited as any audience at a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. However, you could also wait a few weeks and see the ...

The New York Times was ridiculed Monday for its outrageous 2022 "Most Stylish" list that included, among other things, Sen.-elect John Fetterman, D-Pa., a telescope and an invasive pest. The ...

Saturn’s largest moon came under the gaze of NASA’s powerful Webb space observatory, allowing it and another telescope to capture clouds drifting through Titan’s methane-rich atmosphere. By Dennis ...