An object seen to have moved in the time between when it was imaged by the IRAS and AKARI surveys in 1983 and 2006 ...

Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, ...

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Using two infrared space telescopes and a 23-year gap, scientists may have spotted a mysterious, slow-moving object beyond ...

Located at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, the telescope's main purpose is to map large areas of the sky. The team used ...

The Hubble Telescope, 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, continues to surprise despite glitches, retirement risk, and ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive star which exploded in a supernova 10 ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

To address this, a new study led by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Galileo Project proposes an All-Sky Infrared Camera (Dalek) to search for potential indications of ...

moving from the shortest to the longest infrared wavelengths. The shorter wavelength images are from the Spitzer space telescope using the IRAC camera at 3.5 and 8 micrometers and the MIPS camera ...