Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

In a distant part of the universe, where astronomy uncovers the mysteries of creation, an extraordinary discovery has been ...

These bodies, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, could represent a previously unknown type of interstellar object. The research, led by astrophysicist Takashi Shimonishi and his team, raises ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to survey the entire sky in near-infrared light. Over the course of four planned surveys, the observatory will create 3D, colored maps of more ...

The observatory is scheduled to launch in late February alongside NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The minimum two-year ...

The SPHEREx Observatory inside the BAE Systems clean room in Boulder, Colorado SPHEREx will use an advanced imager developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of ...