A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

BEIJING -- A Chinese research team has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model called SpecCLIP, which can interpret stellar spectral data from different telescopes, demonstrating the vast ...

When the venerable Hubble Space Telescope made its Deep Fields studies of the early Universe, it discovered something that would puzzle astronomers to this day. When the Universe was just a few ...

The Rubin Observatory in Chile has the largest camera ever built – and is set to find objects never before seen by human eyes ...

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million ...

Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of ...

Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, March 5 at 11 a.m. for a talk by Shany Danieli on The Path to Understanding Dark Matter: Novel Observations of Low-Mass ...

The Universe is continually expanding, and scientists measure its expansion rate, the Hubble Constant, using two main methods: electromagnetic methods (using light from stars, galaxies, or supernovae) ...

The Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) project, part of the NASA Science Activation program, aims to measurably enhance student STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) engagement ...

A newly detected X-ray transient may reveal the first direct evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole consuming a white dwarf. A newly observed cosmic outburst is giving astronomers a rare glimpse ...

Supercomputer simulations identify stellar rotation as the mechanism driving chemical mixing in red giants, explaining long-observed surface composition changes during stellar evolution.