Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

The telescope peered into a single “toe bean” of the nebula, uncovering clusters of gas, dust and young stars.

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 ...

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...

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

So asking, " Where's the center of the universe? " is somewhat like asking, "Where's the center of the balloon's surface?” ...

The detection of small infrared targets with low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and low contrast in high-noise backgrounds is challenging due to the lack of spatial features of the targets and the ...

When huge stars are denied a glorious death, something more brutal occurs, and you get mysterious signals known as fast x-ray transients.

Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...