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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 ...

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 ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

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 ...

A groundbreaking survey in Nature Astronomy reveals a surprising consensus among scientists: the majority believe that alien ...