CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images, including a photo called the “Cosmic Treasure Chest,” showcasing about 10 million galaxies and marking a major milestone in an $810 million ...

Researchers discover how closed-shell PAHs cool efficiently in space, impacting models of prebiotic carbon formation.

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

The Herschel Space Observatory is the fourth cornerstone mission in the European Space Agency (ESA) science programme. Herschel will be equipped with a passively cooled 3.5-m diameter Cassegrain ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered evidence of “hidden galaxies,” a population of faint, dust-shrouded galaxies that could reshape our understanding of the universe. These galaxies, detected through ...

The Herschel–SPIRE Dark Field Chris Pearson et al. In their studies, the researchers analyzed observations of the distant universe made by the SPIRE instrument on the Herschel Space Observatory ...

SPHEREx is set to launch at Friday from California. Here are five things to know about NASA's latest advanced space telescope.

“These protostars get their names from the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey, which was carried out with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory.” “The object that can be seen in the upper-right corner of this ...

Using data from the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes, scientists have determined that dark matter ghosted through the wreckage of two colliding galaxy clusters over 5 billion light-years away.