On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

There will be opportunity to work with data from ESA’s Gaia mission and high-resolution numerical simulations of the Milky Way, working to reveal our Galaxy’s present-day structure and unravel its ...

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Amy Nordrum of the MIT Technology Review about the magazine's list of breakthrough technologies for 2025.

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

6, 2024 — Researchers have discovered compelling evidence suggesting that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is likely the ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...

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