Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

The head of NASA’s astrophysics division offered an upbeat assessment of upcoming missions, a stark contrast to the agency’s ...

Almost a thousand years since its formation, the Crab Nebula sports complex shells of plasma, filled with tendrils, filaments ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an ...