NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...

Science textbooks may be in for another revision. Our solar system shrank from nine planets to eight after the International ...

Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided ...

Two deep infrared surveys taken 23 years apart measured the object's orbital motion. In 1983, the Infrared Astronomy ...

"I felt very excited," study lead-author Terry Phan, an astronomy doctoral student at the National ... the data archives of ...

If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.

To detect molecular clouds, astronomers most often use conventional methods like radio and infrared observations that can ...

“We’ve done extensive testing on the ground to prepare for this first mission, but there are some things you can only learn in flight, and this will be the first time we’ve flown our final satellite ...

As detailed in a paper to be published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the international team of researchers spotted the ...

to implement best practices between satellite communications and ground-based optical, infrared, and radio astronomy observations. Under this agreement, AST SpaceMobile commits to collaborate closely ...