Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.

There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because a SpaceX ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

Concerns over a critical hydraulic system arose less than four hours before the Falcon rocket’s planned lift-off from Florida ...