A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory—without leaving Earth.

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Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that Betelgeuse—the giant red star that forms Orion’s shoulder—wasn’t alone. Now, a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been busy, and honestly, it’s like getting a whole new set of eyes on the universe.

A natural satellite is simply a celestial object that orbits a planet or a smaller body. Unlike the ones we build and send up ...

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

Can an amateur telescope really compete with the Hubble Space Telescope? 🌌 In this video, we explore what each can capture, ...

Auburn University physicists have detected water activity in comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time hydroxyl gas, water's ...

For the first time, astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to get a clear look at a giant star right ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

3I/ATLAS is named for its status as one of three interstellar objects ever discovered in our cosmic neighborhood, as well as ...