Less than a decade ago, there were about 2,000 operational satellites orbiting Earth. Today there are more than 15,000.

Neutrinos are funny little particles that weigh almost nothing, making them one of the universe's most elusive building ...

A tiny glass chip developed by researchers at Heriot-Watt University has linked two telescopes together to enable them to act ...

For a century, amateur telescope makers have gathered at the Stellafane convention to celebrate their craft. Will the event ...

One of NASA’s premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe’s ...

What makes neutrinos odd is that they don’t interact with the universe through electromagnetism. Instead, they interact with ...

NASA’s Swift Observatory re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia on Nov. 4, months after a $30 million rescue mission ...

A team of astrophysicists from Northwestern University has developed a new method to cut through the bright glare of ...

A last-minute rescue mission failed, and now the spacecraft that spotted more than 2,000 of the universe’s biggest explosions ...

An exhilarating period for science,’ say UChicago scientists who played key role in telescope design and deployment ...

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory plummeted back into Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday over western Indonesia, ending nearly ...

Hubble and James Webb space telescopes observed a mysterious scene of star formation in the Carina Nebula, an enormous cloud ...