Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Earth will gain a new robotic companion this week. NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer — is ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to receive a significant upgrade in the form of artificial intelligence (AI).

Clouds of gas and dust in space—like Rho Ophiuchi, shown here—mostly radiate infrared light, which human eyes can't detect. IRAS, the first infrared telescope in Earth orbit, imaged the region in 1983 ...

A new NASA mission will scan the entire sky in infrared light in search of nearby cool stars, planetary construction zones and the brightest galaxies in the universe. Called the Wide-field Infrared ...

Three weeks after the “blue-light anomaly,” the absence of data has turned 3I/ATLAS from a scientific curiosity into a test of institutional trust.

NASA has spotted what looks like green rain on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The moon seems to glow a green color, which is ...

Although it completed its mission in July, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) still has interesting archival data covering the solar system thanks to the team at ...

Engineers are rolling up their sleeves in preparation for building a telescope that will find the nearest star-like objects and the brightest galaxies. NASA has approved the start of construction on a ...

Space exploration has changed how we look at the universe, but it's costly, and some of the most iconic NASA missions are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was built with a flaw, and because it's a million miles away, we can't repair it, but we can ...