Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...
In this photo taken on Sept. 16, 1993, NASA astronauts James H. Newman (left), and Carl E. Walz evaluate procedures and gear ...
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...
PRIMA is designed as a space telescope that will observe in the far-infrared spectral range. MPIA contributes opto-mechanical ...
In astrophotography, I would say 70% is technique and 30% is the equipment. I spent a lot of time learning the technique behind those incredible images of the galaxies, Zubuyer says ...
An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...
If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would ...
Hardegree-Ullman said that while she was completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona in the early 2000s, a member of the institution shared with her that they were involved with ...
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.