Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.
New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened ...
Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...
Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu ...
The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, focused on the Hubble Legacy Archive and a dataset built from it: 99.6 ...
Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...