The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the building blocks of galaxies during their formative years. The CRISTAL ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area has fended ...

While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of optical astronomy ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

In a significant advance for space exploration, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly detected a new exoplanet; TWA ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...