A team of astronomers are, in a manner of speaking, on cloud nine after discovering a never-before-seen astronomical object ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

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Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

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A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9." ...

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

We definitely have an attention problem, but it’s not just a function of the digital technology that pings and beeps and ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

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.