The ELT could identify biosignatures on planets in our solar system as well as orbiting Proxima Centauri within hours.

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

Array would leverage robotic and crewed lunar missions and China-led International Lunar Research Station set to take shape ...

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Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant ...

Credit: NASA, Alamy This week's science news was largely dominated by the return of two NASA astronauts from ... Astronomers studying the largest-ever map of the cosmos have found hints that our best ...

The universe is expanding at an accelerated rate and our current best theories to explain this is a mysterious form of energy ...

The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope's mission to map the ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

Our current best theories of the universe suggest that dark energy is making it expand faster and faster, but new observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument suggest this mysterious for ...

Queens Public Library is inviting young minds across the borough to blast off into the cosmos this April with the launch of ...