Cornell University is set to expand support for early-career scientists with a $1.5 million grant aimed squarely at postdoctoral researchers. The funding, awarded by the Gordon and Betty Moore ...

It’s a cosmic season in Southern California; look for the unveiling of Griffith Observatory’s Celestial Globe, too.

The discovery reminds us just how little we really know about our galaxy In A Nutshell The Mystery: Evidence suggests dust is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

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

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1779 and has ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

The giant planet Jupiter is back in our evening sky this week. Fresh from its opposition with the sun on Jan. 10, it now lies as close to the Earth as it ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...