Since ESA’s Herschel observatory went dark in 2013, no space telescope has been observing in the far-infrared. NASA's new ...

Originating just 3 billion years after the Big Bang, the record-setting burst was localized with key contributions from UC ...

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope ...

From the Crab Nebula to the Orion Nebula, these 10 winter deep-sky objects are easy to find and perfect targets for small ...

Scientists have just confirmed finding the most distant blazar to date. Designated OP 313, this blazar is located about 8 ...

Astronomers have detected and traced the most distant fast radio burst ever recorded, a powerful flash of radio waves that ...

A flash of radio waves from a young galaxy 3 billion years after the Big Bang is lighting up 80% of the universe’s history.

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and could help map the ...

Some photos are impressive because they are beautiful. Others work because they capture something so strange that you ...

ALMA, a 66‑antenna radio observatory in northern Chile, is boosting its star‑ and planet‑formation studies with new receivers ...

Radio signals emanating from Beta Pictoris b suggest that this young and massive exoplanet has a strong magnetic field and ...

From rocket launches to planetary discoveries, celebrate decades of advancement in spaceflight during World Space Week 2026.