"Astronomers will always assume a simple model unless there is overwhelming evidence that this simple model is flawed." ...
The Dwingeloo telescope, designed to observe signals at low frequencies, detected the farthest human spacecraft when it went ...
The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...
A group of astronomers have made history by capturing an image of a record number of stars from a time when the universe was ...
Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.
Using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), an international team of astronomers have performed deep optical observations of a dwarf galaxy known as NGC 300. As a result, they detected a ...
Killjoys on social media say there’s no point wishing on stars because they are already dead – but the naysayers are completely wrong.
In addition to her duties as a lab instructor for the astronomy department, Meg Thacher is the academic director for Smith’s Summer Science and Engineering Program for high school girls. She has also ...