The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley ...

January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...

The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

Far out in the halo of a nearby spiral galaxy, astronomers have found something that looks like a cosmic misfire, a place ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt's Lazuli, the first private space telescope in history, could fly to space as soon as 2029.

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into ...

While billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are focused on building rockets to reach space and other planets, former ...

As commercial space activity accelerates worldwide, Alex Haro, the chief executive of Hubble, describes the industry as ...

Astronomers have identified an unusual cosmic object that appears to be a galaxy in name only, composed almost entirely of dark matter and lacking the stars that typically define such systems.

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...