A distant supernova exposed elements from a star’s core. The result reshapes ideas of how massive stars evolve. According to long-standing theory, stars are built in layers like onions, with each ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan in November 2022. Credit: ...

A supernova blast 2.2 billion light-years from Earth has given astronomers a deeper view into a star's centre than ever ...

Astronomers have seen a lot of stars explode, but one unusual stellar death is forcing them to rethink what they thought they ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

W. M. Keck Observatory is pleased to announce its newest instrument, the Keck Cosmic Reionization Mapper (KCRM), has successfully achieved “first light,” marking its first time ‘seeing’ the universe ...

The W. M. Keck Observatory on Thursday announced the appointment of Rich Matsuda as its next director, effective Jan. 1. “With the support of our Board of Directors, our observatory has been making a ...

The W. M. Keck Observatory today announced the appointment of Rich Matsuda as its next director, effective January 1, 2024. The W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawai’i operates the two most powerful optical ...

KAMUELA, Hawaii (February 1, 2006) The Board of the California Association for Research in Astronomy (CARA), the governing body for the W. M. Keck Observatory, is pleased to announce that Dr. Taft E.

Artist's interpretation of a Jupiter-like exoplanet. AF Lep b is about three times the mass of Jupiter and orbits AF Leporis, a young Sun-like star about 87.5 light-years away. The existence of the ...

Beginnings: Derek Petrowski sets a goal every New Year’s Eve and did so again on Dec. 31, 2021. “I try to make it a realistic goal,” Petrowski says, “but this time I was feeling a little wild. So I ...