The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Astronomers from two separate research teams made the ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

Thousands of light-years from Earth, the dramatic death throes of a giant star are playing out. It's part of a star system ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

We traveled to Africa to visit Algeria, where we saw the Sahara Desert, drank foamy tea, ate bread and experienced the change ...