With uncertainty surrounding program funding, federal cuts and state budget shortfalls, some University of Washington ...

Eleven faculty members are receiving support for their work through this year’s Hellman Fellowships, and it comes right when ...

Satellite megaconstellations are increasingly impacting astronomical observations. Bright satellite streaks are compromising ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...

According to modern cosmology, most galaxies are surrounded by faint, extended halos of light called LSB structures. These ...

At least two ingredients are needed to make jets — rotation and magnetic fields — and these produce the ubiquitous laserlike jets we see.

My main goal is to bring interactive science to schools,” said Hyseni, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Earth and Planetary ...

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new milestone: several key components of this high-precision spectrograph have been ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...

Satellite mega constellations promise faster connectivity but threaten astronomy, as thousands of satellites brighten skies, ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...