New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of three nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths, giving them a first look at star formation, gas and dust. Data has ...

Modern technology is amazing: where humans see an unchanging void in the depths of the universe, space telescopes are capable ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

An international research team led by Gerd Weigelt from the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie in Bonn reports on high-resolution studies of an active galactic nucleus in the near-infrared. The ...

Among the research managers at NASA, working towards the construction of the large telescope that will allow us to observe stars with unprecedented detail from the Moon's South Pole, is Gioia ...

JWST snaps thousands of photos of our universe, from sparkling stellar nurseries to clusters of distant galaxies. But it takes human image processors, like Joe DePasquale, to turn these photos into ...

A ground-based telescope in Chile has shared its highest-resolution image ever, showcasing the final stages of star evolution within our galaxy 1,350 light-years from Earth. The telescope is ...