A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

In a speech at the AMOS conference the day after the telescope tour, Saltzman said the Space Force is “honored to be ...

Ukrainian defense forces destroyed a giant radio telescope in Crimea, a powerful planetary transmitter once used to support ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably ...

The RT-70 radio telescope in Crimea was once used to support missions to Venus and transmit messages to potential alien life ...

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

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

Webb telescope captures a young giant star firing off an 8-light-year gas jet, and revealing how massive stars form.

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...