When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...

Recently, astronomers have been puzzled by an unknown type of cosmic radio signal. A new breakthrough has finally traced one ...

An issue with a ground system that supports the Falcon 9 rocket led to a postponement of at least one day of the latest rotation of space station crews. By Kenneth Chang The SPHEREx telescope ...

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

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

Astronomers have identified the possible origin of unusual cosmic radio bursts, revealing a previously unknown source in deep ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, called SPHEREx, finally got off the ground this week, after a series of delays that had stalled its launch since late February. From low-Earth orbit, it will gather data ...

What is …?” is a section-wide column that explores the STEM majors at UW and explains what they are. This week, c William ...

Astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The research team, using JWST revealed something extraordinary in the galaxy: significant amounts of ...

Built by Ball Aerospace with a payload provided by Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and test facilities from the Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), the 1,100 ...