The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...

Rapidly growing swarms of satellites around Earth are no longer just a nuisance for ground-based observatories — the reflections they cause are now intruding on space-based telescopes as well, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, recently announced that they would finance, out of their own pocket, a number ...

New telescope instruments are pushing galaxy observation far beyond what was possible a decade ago. Advances in space telescope technology now allow astronomers to study billions of galaxies across ...

NASA and a team from the University of Chicago have found an odd, lemon-shaped exoplanet in deep space that might be ...

China is readying a major project that not only augments the nation's astronomical research agenda but bolsters the use of the country's space station complex. And there are bragging rights associated ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre cosmic explosion that refuses to play by the rules—and it’s leaving scientists scrambling for answers. GRB 250702B, detected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ...

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely ...

Astronomers have reportedly narrowed the search for extraterrestrial life to a focused list of 45 rocky exoplanets. Out of ...