We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Hoping to see deeper into the universe, scientists and engineers are designing some of the largest and weirdest telescopes ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant glowing iron bar across the Ring Nebula. Its origin is unknown, defying models of stellar ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Noah Frere will speak on “Comparing the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope to the Hubble and to the James Web Space ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...