If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That's easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

The final day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar shows a new view of one of the most famous deep-space images of ...

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) turns six years old today. The youngest branch of the U.S. military was established on December 20, 2019, with the passage of the John S. McCain National Defense ...

Danger lurks above our heads. Space debris could trap humanity on Earth forever while asteroids silently approach on collision courses. The cosmic threats most people don't know about. Trump adopts ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems. Gaël Chauvin (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

(CNN) — Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in reaching them, a few startups say these celestial bodies could offer a sustainable ...