NASA has set August 30, 2026 as the launch date for its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — pulling the schedule forward by ...

NASA's latest and greatest space telescope, named after the agency's first female chief astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, is ...

What if dark matter isn’t some exotic particle that stubbornly eludes discovery but is instead swarms of tiny “primordial” ...

A blip of light in the outer reaches of the Milky Way might be a bizarre black hole born at the beginning of time itself—and ...

Black holes could reveal the presence of dark matter in their immediate vicinity through their gravitational waves. Gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein, are ripples in spacetime. They ...

An international research team led by Chinese scientists at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

The universe is a cosmic web, woven from vast filaments that connect galaxies and clusters. Elena Pinetti explains how these ...

In this James Webb Space Telescope high-resolution infrared image of the face-on spiral galaxy, NGC 628, the gas and dust ...

Dark energy has been a mysterious element of cosmological equation since it was proposed three decades ago, but new research ...

For nearly 30 years, scientists have believed that a mysterious force called dark energy is causing the universe to expand faster and faster. But a new mathematical study suggests that dark energy may ...

NASA is preparing to send a new space telescope into orbit that the agency says could dramatically expand what scientists ...