"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Johns Hopkins applied mathematicians and astronomers have developed a new method to render images from ground-based telescopes as clear as those taken from space, a process that stands to expand the ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

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

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

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for five long years—an infrared photo of two dying stars we'd requested from ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 16, 2026 shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under ...