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 ... Joanna Thompson is a science journalist and runner based in New York.

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 ...

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

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

"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 ...

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 ...

Amateur astronomer challenges assumptions about Jupiter’s clouds Findings suggest clouds are deeper than ammonia ice levels Collaborative research uncovers new insights into Jupiter’s atmosphere ...