Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...

Most people looking through an astronomical telescope for the first time are baffled by their ... Telescopes are not inherently better at looking into space than binoculars. Yes, astronomers’ ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Next you dress up in surgical scrubs—booties, head covering, mask, blouse, and pants—and pass through a series of doors that take you into ... The telescope will be able to look at a patch of sky 100 ...

“I look at the data from Euclid as it comes ... but has previously observed an Einstein ring using the James Webb Space Telescope that was described in a June 2023 study he coauthored with ...