Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built in the Southern Hemisphere. There, ...

In Chilean tradition, this ceremony is known as Tijerales, and was celebrated on April 16, 2025 with a traditional barbeque for the crew. The ceremony was also livestreamed to ESO's headquarters in ...

The observations could reshape how we understand the Sun’s magnetic architecture and improve space weather forecasting.

A Ball Aerospace engineer prepares the glass illumination ground support optics (background) beryllium flight spare Secondary Mirror Assembly (foreground) for cryogenic optical hexapod motion testing ...

Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope recently got a front-row seat to some incredible stellar fireworks on the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy. The eruption of gases from a stellar jet in a ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS nucleus size remains one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy. Scientists are analyzing ...

Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest "super" star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This ...