Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

After clearing its last hurdle on its way to space, the Pandora satellite mission is awaiting to be launched into orbit, ...

Project Jupiter is one part of Stargate, an enormous high-tech enterprise. But it hasn’t been smooth sailing for developers, ...

I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from beyond the Solar System, is drawing attention again after new data revealed dramatic activity on ...

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

As the Institute’s first VP for energy and climate, Evelyn Wang ’00 is marshaling MIT’s expertise to meet the greatest ...

Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...

Andreas Malm and Thea Riofrancos joined The Nation’s Wen Stephenson in an urgent conversation about the left and the climate ...

Planet, best known for providing geospatial intelligence through its satellites, sees an opportunity in orbital data centers ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...