"Astronomers have been studying the heavens for thousands of years, but until recently much of the cosmos has been invisible to the human eye. Launched in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope has brought ...

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was just less than 300 million years old—just 2% of its current age. Observed by ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

Cornell astronomers played a key role in developing the instrument responsible for discovering the presence of water on the sunlit surface of the moon this past October. NASA’s Stratospheric ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it could help explain why these strange outbursts occur.. Sagittarius A ...

New astronomical facilities, such as the under-construction Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and planned 30-meter-class telescopes, and new instrumentation on existing optical and infrared (OIR) ...

The SETI Institute has a rich and deep history of delivering quality educator professional development. The Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) program has capitalized on access to NASA astronomy ...

NASA recently selected the PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) project as one of two candidates for its new Probe Explorers mission class. PRIMA is designed as a space telescope that ...

"... organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Universidad Internacional Menéndez-Pelayo"--Pref. NASM copy no. 39088007767478 has bookplate ...

This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was taken by the onboard Near-Infrared Camera for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, program. The NIRCam data was used to ...