Kellie Gerardi of Jupiter, is her own kind of astronaut, one who marries science and sparkle and who wants to show other girls the way to the stars.

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

An advanced imaging system developed at the University of Arizona boasts a shape-shifting mirror that delivers observing ...

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Like Elon Musk -- the only person wealthier than him -- Jeff Bezos has an enduring passion for space. But while Musk dreams of colonizing Mars, Bezos envisions shifting heavy industry off-planet ...

Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft developed by a private sector ...