Two new peer-reviewed papers claim thousands of unexplained light flashes in vintage Palomar telescope images show ...

The first private space science satellite set to study the impact of flares from stars has been launched into spaceand is now in orbit, the company behind it has said.Blue Skies Space, a space science ...

Optical telescopes utilize refraction and reflection to focus light, enabling detailed astronomical observations and ...

If findings are correct, astronomer Tomonori Totani told Newsweek, this may finally solve "the greatest mystery in cosmology.

From the earliest artificial satellites to today's sophisticated space telescopes and GPS constellations, these marvels of ...

Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas has moved within 300 million km of Earth as scientists continue tracking its rare journey.

CHENGDU -- On Haizi Mountain in Daocheng in Southwest China's Sichuan province, with an average altitude over 4,400 meters, a ...

A series of scientific satellites launched by China have achieved major discoveries in fields such as cosmic transient ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

NASA has an audacious plan to save a space telescope by using a rocket launched midair from a former passenger airliner.

NASA’s Swift space telescope is running out of altitude, but a privately funded spacecraft is being readied to push it higher ...