Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected unexpected high-energy ultraviolet radiation around five ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Discover James Webb discoveries revealing the JWST early universe, cosmic dawn insights, and groundbreaking new space ...

Bloomer: It is best to start with a little naked-eye astronomy: see if you can pick just something out at first, and build ...

The observation of the low-energy γ-ray (0.1 to 30 MeV) sky has been significantly limited since the Imaging Compton ...

CONFIDENCE IN HAPPENING YESTERDAY. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING UNUSUAL DURING HIS RESEARCH OF SPACE, AND IT COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW PLANETS FORM. VLADIMIR LYRA ...

Long before starlight filled the cosmos for the first time, the young universe may have been simmering, according to a new study. The findings suggest that about 800 million years after the Big Bang, ...

Space miso fermentation is possible. Space miso tasted nuttier than Earth miso. Space miso had different microbes and chemicals. More research is needed to understand space's effect on fermentation.

In the July 2003 issue of Astronomy, Bob Berman describes some of the space age’s failures, from the tragic loss of the shuttles Columbia and Challenger to the nearly catastrophic Apollo 13 mission.