Knox students traveled to southern Arizona over spring break to help maintain the Robert L. Mutel Telescope and gain hands-on ...

James Webb data reveal pristine gas irradiated by energetic light some 450 million years after the Big Bang — a sign it may ...

Today we are inviting residents to personally observe the Sun and Moon through an 8-inch f/8 telescope outside the ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the object, gathering clues on whether it grew larger over time like ...

"It is exhilarating to see 'galaxies' come out of our computer that look indistinguishable from the real thing." The post ...

NASA's Webb Redefines… Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to directly image 29 Cygni b, which weighs 15 times ...

Christopher W. Stubbs, a professor of physics and astronomy at Harvard, says there are lots of upsides to the era in which we ...

For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole. The jet ...

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...

New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today. (CREDIT: Monthly ...

Some minds were so far ahead of their time that the world couldn’t even understand them. This story focuses on a 19th century heiress who predicted what computers could become long before they existed ...