Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

With construction complete, the telescope will now move into final testing. Following testing, Roman will be packaged and ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

Scientists have for the first time mapped the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, uncovering violent winds and bizarre ...

A case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted from Earth during the day ...

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

The world’s largest optical telescope is seen taking shape in an amazing image. The European Southern Observatory’s Extremely ...

The European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope is set to have full scientific operations commencing by ...

The Webb telescope has unlocked a mystery in an exotic star system located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth. Using its mid-infrared observation capabilities, the space telescope captured the ...

The upcoming Extremely Large Telescope is designed to capture images with far greater detail than any ground-based observatory before it. Its massive mirror and adaptive optics system could allow it ...