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

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

Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

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

During the day, this patch of land in sparsely populated Central Texas is not remarkable. Eleven buildings, nearly identical, look like ...

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

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

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

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter.