It is likely that the Chang'e 7 lunar lander will touch down near Shackleton Crater, Schörghofer advised, outfitted with an ...

An infrared image shows a brown dwarf discovered by astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea on Feb. 23, 2024. Data from both the observatory and telescope ...

GRAND FORKS — A research infrastructure project by UND will help both local customers and university students communicate with satellites through lasers. The physics and astrophysics assistant ...

China conducted a total of 93 space launches in 2025, setting a new national record for orbital launches in a single year.

The supernova SN 2025wny is hopelessly far, lying approximately 10 billion light-years from Earth. Normally, this would make it impossible for astronomers to detect. But one team got lucky. While ...

Far from the bright glare of the Moon, a much smaller companion has been quietly keeping pace with Earth, looping around the ...

A small asteroid spotted only hours before it struck the atmosphere has become a touchstone for how fragile, and how powerful ...

Astronomers on Mauna Kea found the first space object on which NASA’s Roman Space Telescope can test its imaging technology. Hawaii’s four-member Democratic delegation to Washington was unanimous ...

NASA is ramping up work on one large space telescope while also laying the groundwork for future observatories.

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a ...

The scientists behind the MAGIS-100 experiment aim to use state-of-the-art lasers to shed light on ultralight dark matter.

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers at LMU to detect even the smallest ...