Even ordinary telescopes have a way of acting less ordinary when there comes a comet that will never be seen again. The ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a bright galaxy that formed just 280 million years after the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has once again redefined the boundaries of cosmic observation. A recent study published via ...

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.

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using spectroscopy. Now a team led by Université de Montréal's Étienne Artigau has ...

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 ...

NASA confirms galaxy MoM-z14 observed by the James Webb Space Telescope formed 280 million years after the Big Bang using spectroscopic measurements.

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 ...

The next time you look at a star, imagine a rocky planet orbiting at just the right distance for a climate that supports liquid water on its surface. Picture thick forests upon vast landscapes teeming ...

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 ...