"We're going to find one-in-a-million things over and over and over again," a NASA scientist recently predicted.

Scheduled to launch Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, NASA's Roman telescope will image far more sky than Hubble ...

Nasa is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The ...

A stunning new telescope will help NASA scientists study and identify 100,000 exoplanets, hundreds of millions of galaxies, billions of stars and rare objects and phenomena that astronomers have never ...

Launching Aug. 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will investigate dark matter, dark energy and distant worlds while capturing panoramic views 100 times larger than Hubble's.

Astrophysics is, as many astrophysicists will tell you, the story of everything. The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to ...

Every night, astronomers must carefully assess changing weather, the intensity of moonlight and shifting atmospheric conditions before deciding where to point a telescope. It's a constant balancing ...

This is the largest high-resolution photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy's centre in visible light. It was taken on 23 March 2025 by the European Space Agency's Euclid space te ...

The world’s first commercial space science telescope, Mauve, just sent back data from low-Earth orbit, achieving “first light” — and signaling a potential new era for low-cost observation. Launched ...

Inside a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, engineers have finished building and testing a massive new space telescope designed to study the universe on an unprecedented scale. The ...

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.