New wide field view mosaic from the James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopic survey of NGC1333 with three of the newly discovered free-floating planetary-mass objects indicated by green markers.

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

The study of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is driven by both scientific and practical reasons. Because of their proximity to our planet, they can provide key information regarding the delivery of water ...

It’s been over three full years since NASA’s Webb Space Telescope began "unfolding the universe" as the space agency promised with stellar images and spectroscopy of other worlds. In July, NASA, the ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was blocked using a coronagraph to reveal a planet to its right. The light at the ...

After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT capturing the universe’s most distant gigamaser to Ghana’s radio ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) isn’t the first of its kind, but the state-of-the-art spectroscopic instruments onboard have opened new doors for high-energy astrophysics. Active ...

The next ORION program will take place at 7 pm Wednesday, May 21, in the City Room (Room A-111), McNally-Coffey building, Roane State Community College, Oak Ridge campus. The title of the program is ...

Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the ...