Since its launch in April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluable tool for astronomers in unraveling the mysteries of the universe.

Each month WTOP’s “Eyes to the Skies” feature previews the best the sky has to offer stargazers regarding the moon, planets and stars.

Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation and dark matter.

Halfway through Space Is the Place, Sun Ra muses that scientists are fed on research while Black people have been fed on freedom. As a Black physicist, I have been fed on both, and I have tried to grow the seeds that my ancestors passed on to me.

In October, at a tech conference in Italy, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades” and “mostly,” he’d said, “because they want to,” because robots ...

There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light—of galaxies and planets and brightly hued moons. The people who explore space and the astronomers who study it with orbiting ...

Vahe Peroomian has, in the past, received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research in the field of space science. USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences ...

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