Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time ...

This week, as the comet emerges from behind the sun, South African astronomers who are on their toes may get a brief look—probably the last look from the earth. Amateur’s Dream. Shy ...

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

"There's still so much to learn, and no matter how much we do learn, we keep finding more stuff that ... to STEM subjects, or science, technology, engineering and math. "Astronomy is a great ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

That the planets appear to go backward is a powerful observation that massively advanced science. Sky-watchers have since ancient times called these planets “the wanderers,” but astronomers ...

Astronomers are poised to catch a star that only shines about once every 80 years On a cold February night in 1946, a 15-year-old schoolboy made a surprising discovery as he peered out of his ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived ... he is the most successful fraud in the history of science.” That assessment hardly endeared Newton to other ...