Within GRAVITY’s combined observations, Xuan’s team discovered that Gliese 229 B was not a single object, but a pair of brown ...

It could be a sign that Halloween is very close, or we could be looking at another unexplained phenomena in the skies above ...

Among the marquee objects on view are a couple of the infamous Blue Book ... There are several Instagram-ready tableaus ...

An isolated quasar in deep space, circled in red. Credit ... Capturing more light allows Webb to see more distant, ancient objects. The telescope is peering at stars and galaxies that formed ...

The object is actually a distorted view of two ... Here, clouds of dust surrounding the galaxy glow in infrared light, appearing red and orange. When a baby star throws a tantrum, the whole ...

Complicated physics makes these molecules scatter more blue light than red, giving the sky its azure ... Astronomers are always trying to see faint objects in the sky, from small objects in ...

Ground vibration induces small variations to the frequency of reflected laser light, which are used to create a vibration ...

A celestial explosion will cause a star to rise from its cosmic grave, briefly creating a "new" star in our night sky!

The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - form in the violent explosion, called a ...

Stars and other objects beyond our solar system lie anywhere from a few light-years to a few billion light-years away. And everything astronomers "see" in the distant universe is literally history.

A new exhibition co-presented by the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art explores the seminal artist’s ...