SETI’s senior astronomer explains how colossal artifacts could be the key to finding extraterrestrial life, past or present.

Vermont-based astrophotographer Michele Hernandez Bayliss has captured stunning views of Messier 94 - also known as the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The iconic Whirlpool galaxy Messier 51 is pictured along with the smaller galaxy NGC 5195 at ...

The Milky Way galaxy alone hosts hundreds of millions of potentially habitable planets. Astronomers are using powerful space telescopes to look for molecular indicators of biology in the ...

The astronomy project stems from a 2023 agreement between China's state-run National Astronomical Observatory and Chile's Catholic University of the North to work on a powerful space observatory ...

A new state-of-the-art observatory, scheduled to be completed later this year, is likely to sniff out distant comets long before amateur astronomers can. SOHO was not built to find comets ...

The astronomical initiative originated from a 2023 collaboration between China's National Astronomical Observatory and Chile's Catholic University of the North, planning a space observatory in the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified 1,678 galaxy groups up to 12 billion light years away, forming the largest and deepest sample ...

The astronomy project stems from a 2023 agreement between China’s state-run National Astronomical Observatory and Chile’s Catholic University of the North to work on a powerful space ...