A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into one dazzling mosaic. Half a year after first opening its eyes to the cosmos ...

"This is a tale of a failed galaxy." ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.