How does a star form from the cold, turbulent gloom of a molecular cloud? Three years have already passed since the James Webb Space Telescope has been revealing how, most recently by removing the ...

The SOAR Telescope sits on the peak of Cerro Pachón, part of the Chilean Andes mountain range. Recently, a rare winter storm swept across the Atacama desert, bringing snow to the driest place on Earth ...

Physicists and engineers at CU Boulder envision infrared astronomy telescopes that may one day span the entire globe—syncing up observations from instruments spread across the continents, or even ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

Such a telescope, Maillard told Space.com in an email, would be more sensitive than the current star of infrared astronomy, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and see parts of the electromagnetic ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

The low-hanging fruit of early infrared astronomy. In the late 60s and early 1970s, “infrared [astronomy] was still very much a nascent field,” Caltech professor of physics Thomas Soifer tells ...

To map the galaxy’s magnetic field lines, Dr. Chuss and his colleagues flew at 45,000 feet aboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, a 747 outfitted for astronomy.

Frank J. Low, who helped astronomers extend their vision beyond visible light into a vast realm of previously invisible colors, revolutionizing the study of the birth of planets, stars and ...