The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

DESI's first dataset maps 18.7 million celestial objects, aiding dark energy, galaxy, and universe expansion studies.

ALMA researchers reported the discovery of oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Geologists believe unusual structures in ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a ...

Called SPHEREx, the instrument will map 450 million galaxies and search for water molecules that may be clinging to space dust ...

The U.S. space agency's megaphone-shaped SPHEREx - short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer - was carried aloft by a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

A documentary involving the Green Bank observatory and several locals, called "Small Town Universe," directed by Katie Dellamaggiore, will be screened for free at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts ...

Water may have emerged in the universe far earlier than scientists thought — and it could mean that life could be billions of years older too, new research suggests. Water is one of the most ...

Scientists today are quite sure about how long our universe has existed ... and his co-authors asked in the study they submitted to Science. A second set of simulations tested whether the water ...