MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

Looking for fun activities this week? You can try "The Wizard of Oz" at ASF, as well as several music and theater shows at ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

Machine learning can help tighten constraints on the overarchingFor almost as long as humans have existed, we have been trying to make sense of the cosmos. What started as philosophical musing has, ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

RIT researchers will be co-investigators on nine of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 4 programs set to begin in early ...

Unlike galaxies with active supermassive black holes, the bright source near NGC 5530’s center is actually a nearby star in ...