Space Exploration

NASA’s next highly-anticipated observatory passes important instrument review

NASA’s WFIRST mission will succeed the Spitzer Space Telescope as the organisation’s infrared eye in the sky

Spitzer captures beautiful ‘space butterfly’ spreading its cosmic wings

NASA’s infrared juggernaut has imaged the fluttering of illuminated gas where new stars form

Astronomers hunt for stars inside the Tarantula Nebula

By using the stratospheric observatory SOFIA, researchers hope to see the birth of massive stars outside our Milky Way

Universe is expanding faster than previously thought

Astronomers have obtained the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding at the present time

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