Astronomers Just Nailed Down the Universe’s Expansion Rate… and Now They Have More Questions

Using a new framework, astronomers arrived at the most precise measurement of our universe’s expansion rate—but things still ...

Watch Artemis 2 race back to Earth in this telescope livestream tonight

A Virtual Telescope Project livestream will track NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft as it races back toward Earth. Here's how ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Parker Solar Probe Changed How We See the Universe. Now, Their Models Have Found a Home at the Smithsonian

The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in ...

Possible 'hints' of life found on planet 124 light-years away in James Webb Space Telescope data

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN

A Japanese team just built a telescope so precise it can spot a 3.5 mm object from 1 kilometer away

A team of Japanese scientists has developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope capable of detecting an object just 3.5 mm wide ...

A Rare Comet Is Coming — And You Won't Need A Telescope To See It Light Up The Sky

Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) is brightening as it approaches Earth and should be visible to the naked eye between April 13 and ...
Science Daily

Webb telescope spots mysterious explosion that defies known physics

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre cosmic explosion that refuses to play by the rules—and it’s leaving scientists scrambling for answers. GRB 250702B, detected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ...
Astronomy on MSN

Could this telescope find life on alien worlds?

The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...

How the Green Bank Telescope helps track the Artemis II mission

The record-breaking flight of Artemis II is more than halfway through its mission around the moon, and 12 News got a peek ...

'Little red dots' spotted by the James Webb telescope may just be awkward black holes going through a phase

A study of the fascinating galaxy system nicknamed "The Stingray" suggests that mysterious little red dots could be a phase ...

Major new telescope on Chilean summit opens window on universe

Thirty-four years after Cornell University scientists first conceived it, the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) now ...

New solar telescope turns sunspots into exoplanet-finding weapons

The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal site in Chile, ...