A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.
Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...
Most massive galaxies have black holes at their cores that emit energetic particles, heating the galaxy’s gas and dust.
(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...
Just as modern telescopes reveal the hidden structure of nebulae and star clusters, understanding the physics behind twilight ...
Scientists are using the James Webb Telescope to study Asteroid 2024 YR4 which has a chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ...