"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Children love looking up at the stars and imagining distant galaxies, but with just their eyes, they can ...

It’s been a well-worn gag for years among astronomers: The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch later this year. And always will be. Well, that joke is less potent now. Early on Christmas ...

"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years." To resolve nearby Earth-like ...

How can a sunshade on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope help protect the multi-billion-dollar instrument to conduct cutting-edge science? This is what NASA engineers hope to find out as they recently ...

A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the crisp vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble is one of many missions across ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Duke researchers say they have played a key role in developing a groundbreaking telescope that is now capturing the most detailed images of the universe ever taken. The Vera Rubin ...

Astronomers discover, witness birth of a solar system around distant star Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...

A ghost in the Oval Office: How Reagan looms over the Trump presidency Ronald Reagan remains a conservative icon for many Americans. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the ...

In the middle of Chile's Atacama desert, there's lots of activity as construction on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is still underway, with cranes helping to move pieces in place. The ELT is the ...