Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Webb observations of the Sextans A galaxy reveal how stars in a metal-poor areas create cosmic dust, offering clues about the ...

D printing your own telescope is rewarding and customizable, but it rarely saves money once optics, materials, and time are ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

Somewhere between the stars, far from any sun, a planet is moving quietly through space. There is no orbit to trace and no ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...