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NASA is designing the Habitable Worlds Observatory — a telescope built not just to look, but to scan other planets for signs of life. Positioned at the Earth–Sun L2 point, it will use a segmented ...

NASA recently put the finishing touches on a telescope set to become the agency’s flagship infrared space telescope, but it hasn’t come cheap. The total cost for developing, building and launching the ...

It's 99 percent dark matter, a new study explains.

Astronomers using Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic object that is believed to be a “failed galaxy”. Dubbed ‘Cloud-9’, the astronomical curiosity is a cloud of dark ...

A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed map of dark matter to date.

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA's new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...

As it slips back into deep space, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is behaving in ways that defy expectations. Instead of fading quietly, the rogue object has erupted with a vast X-ray glow and fresh ...