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