The cosmos has always fascinated us, with its vast expanses and mysteries that are yet to be fully understood. The ...

Looking Up is transcribed using a combination of AI speech recognition and human editors. It may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dean Regas: On the campus ...

An instrument on Webb called the Near-Infrared Spectrograph collects light from distant objects and then separates them into different wavelengths, or colors, like a prism. These colors, representing ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an astronomer at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom and first ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel It's the year 2000. We're floating in space, and ...

NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical ...

Two more of NASA's space telescopes got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar interloper that captured the world's attention in July 2025.

A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

WORTHINGTON — Want to see the star-filled night sky up close through a telescope? Here’s your chance! The Minnesota West ...

If you want a good look at the night sky, it helps to head out of town and stay up late. That’s the idea behind The Eugene Astronomical Society’s “Dark Sky Parties,” which are held each summer at ...

If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given open lectures, volunteered at a stargazing event, written about the sky, done anything—then at some point you’ve had to warn ...