Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

A ‘selfie’ taken during Webb’s testing on Earth. Ball Aerospace After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the ...

A truly once-in-a-generation event is unfolding! Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is now visible from Earth after its journey ...

New observations of the comet 3I/ATLAS by the James Webb Space Telescope hint that may indeed be the case-and the findings are rewriting the way scientists decode the chemistry of interstellar ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations show interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has a 50-65 foot irradiated crust formed by billions ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

A new study investigates strange bursts of light captured in old astronomical photos, suggesting they may link to both UFO sightings and Cold War nuclear testing.

Clear skies at the Vollink Family Observatory let SEMO students and locals spot meteors, comets, and Saturn’s moons, ...

Combining a quantum-inspired algorithm and quantum information processing technologies could enable researchers to measure ...