Designed as a medium-class mission within NASA’s Explorers program, SPHEREx was selected by NASA for funding and development ...
Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets orbiting the star PDS 70. These "baby planets" are surrounded by dust rings ...
The vast realm probed by radio astronomers is one invisible to the naked eye, and even most kinds of telescopes. Now, thanks ...
Astronomers say they've discovered one of the most masssive black holes ever discovered in the Cosmic Horseshoe.
IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...