With modern GPS, we often don’t think too hard about how to navigate, but GPS does not work very well on the open sea. That ...

All these questions and more will be answered at Hands-on Astronomy, a free science event for astronomers young and old on ...

Shrinivas Kulkarni, Shaw Prize winner and a professor at Caltech, talks on the importance of thorough analysis and strategic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Paper-thin optical lenses simple enough to mass produce like microchips could enable a new generation of compact optical devices. Researchers have fabricated and tested flat lenses called Fresnel zone ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

The Korea Polar Research Institute announced that it will operate a pop-up store titled "Antarctic Exploration Team" at the ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...