Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

But the newly discovered supernova, dubbed SN 2021yfj, displayed a startling different chemical signature containing silicon, ...

Stars die and vanish from sight all the time, but astronomers were puzzled when one that had been stable for more than a decade almost disappeared for eight months.

"The James Webb Space Telescope has given us some infrared images of the aurora, but Juno is the first spacecraft in a polar ...

Penn State astronomers are using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, combined with theoretical models, to ...

That appears to be changing, with adjustments to the astronomy curriculum that faculty believe will make an astronomy minor more accessible to students with a deep interest in the subject but a ...

The University of North Carolina Asheville ’s Department of Physics and Astronomy recently launched a new astronomy major — the first in the state school system and second in the state.

The York County Astronomical Society will have a public event Saturday, Aug. 30, at their observatory located at John Rudy ...

Scientists from around the world are gathered in Maryland this week for the so-called "Super Bowl of astronomy." the 245th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.