Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

Luxury watchmakers and tattoo artists may not seem like natural collaborators, but Roger Dubuis’s four-year partnership with ...

The Bullet Cluster, named for its distinctive shape, has long been considered a smoking gun for the existence of dark matter ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

Our next meeting, on Thursday, July 3, will be at the regular time of 6 p.m. for the social hour and at our regular location — the Community United Methodist Church at 434 Lewis St. Please ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope team explains how the observatory will help solve the mysteries of the cosmos including the search for life.