This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting to something extraordinary — the first full-colour picture from a telescope ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day- October 21, 1949- the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay officially opened. The ...

Why it's so special: What are the smallest stars? A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed free-floating, Jupiter-size objects that could ...

The Vera C. Rubin observatory will host a “first look” event at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, June 23. You can watch it live right here. reading time 3 minutes A state-of-the-art telescope nearly 25 years in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has dramatically transformed the field of astronomy since its launch, precipitating groundbreaking discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of the ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world’s most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier this week from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images capture ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...

Astronomy James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space photo of the week Astronomy James Webb telescope reveals 'Sleeping Beauty' galaxies in the ...

The fact that this carbon dust can potentially survive for centuries could change how we think about the building blocks of new stars. Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to ...

In January in Monterrey, Mexico, Iván Venzor was one of only a dozen people in the world to glimpse a potential Jupiter-sized planet crossing in front of a distant star. It happened too fast to see by ...

Astrophysics is, as many astrophysicists will tell you, the story of everything. The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to ...

MENASHA (WLUK) -- Community members are invited to explore the wonders of the universe at Family Astronomy Day at the Barlow Planetarium. It's a special event Sept. 27 celebrating the reopening of the ...