Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

At the heart of the Milky Way lies a turbulent, densely packed environment known as the Central Molecular Zone, or CMZ. This region is rich with gas, dust, and massive star formation, making it one of ...

The Wide Field Imager (WFI) was built by a consortium comprising the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) of the Australian National University, the Anglo-Australian Observatory ...

The Royal Astronomical society calls its latest bullying and harassment report a "damning" one. It reveals a major systemic problem in the fields of astronomy and geophysics.

NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured the sun blast a "huge rush of mass" that warped the magnetic field, according to the ...

A cosmic jet aimed at Earth reveals how blazars hurl particles to extreme energies, solving a long-standing mystery.

A study led by Jenny Frediani at Stockholm University has revealed a planet-forming disk with a strikingly unusual chemical composition: an unexpectedly high abundance of carbon dioxide (CO2) in ...

NASA scientists have discovered a planet-wide electric field surrounding Earth, confirming a 60-year-old hypothesis. Studying the field could yield some vital information about how our planet's ...

Astronomy Magazine's Dave Eicher was there to experience 3 minutes and 51 seconds of totality during 2024's eclipse.

In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized the field of astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying stars called pulsars. This encore episode: Jocelyn ...