"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

The fourth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a cluster of powerful infant stars blasting a ...

Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

Bright stars and a lone bright planet are visible at dusk as December begins. The Summer Triangle of Vega, Altair and Deneb ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

On most nights, city skies hide the stars. Streetlights, buildings, and cars fill the air with artificial glow that drowns ...

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

Astronomers are uncovering new ways to study the universe’s first stars, objects too distant and faint to observe directly, by examining the ancient 21-centimeter radio signal left behind by hydrogen ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a galaxy cluster between us and LAP1-B." Astronomers have discovered that the ...

A newly constructed 30-inch f/3.3 telescope, designated the “Lockwood Monster” and built by Mike Lockwood, achieved its "first light" observation on Saturday, November 15, near Animas, New Mexico, at ...