It was an encounter with images captured by the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes that reshaped the trajectory of Sujata ...

Picture this. We're floating through the cosmos on a pale blue dot, orbiting an average star in an unremarkable galaxy. The ...

Astronomers are really clever, and they've concocted new ways to do just that. They use a global network of telescopes, ...

What began as a summer learning project has turned into a scientific discovery. An American high school student has ...

The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets.

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

After a year of protests from astronomers, authorities have abandoned plans for a giant, light-polluting renewable-energy ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred dollars, and that is just the entry ...