A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question.

New images from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory suggest that the galaxy, known as NGC 3640, may soon merge with a smaller galactic ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

The more powerful they get, traditional curved lenses used in telescopes become bigger and bulkier. University of Utah ...

Scientists aim to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the universe using NASA's newest space telescope, ...