A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

Webb Telescope captures stunning new images of HH 30, revealing a dynamic protoplanetary disc where planets form.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a glass to the past, revealing elements of the early universe. Over the past two ...

Most massive galaxies have black holes at their cores that emit energetic particles, heating the galaxy’s gas and dust.

The James Webb Space Telescope is reshaping our understanding of the universe with groundbreaking discoveries. From capturing the most detailed images of distant galaxies to detecting atmospheric ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...