Has the Milky Way’s Black Hole Come to Light?
What’s going on with our galaxy? Astronomers have long suspected that 26,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, lurking behind…
What’s going on with our galaxy? Astronomers have long suspected that 26,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, lurking behind…
Astronomers have been leapfrogging each other into the past lately. Last week, a group using the Hubble Space Telescope announced…
Luis Calçada, a science visualization artist who works with the European Southern Observatory, chose another hot Jupiter: Vega b. “This…
Movies that imagine an asteroid or comet catastrophically colliding with Earth always feature a key scene: a solitary astronomer spots…
This interview is part of our latest Women and Leadership special report, which highlights women making significant contributions to the…
Noise and chaos reign at the heart of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, or so it appears in an…
After traveling nearly one million miles, the James Webb Space Telescope is set to arrive at its new home on…
The most powerful telescope ever launched into space is nearing the end of a meticulous assembly process that has kept…
America was a nation divided, but that did not stop it from building parts of the James Webb Space Telescope…
There are only a few times in the history of a species when it gains the know-how, the audacity and…