The Atacama desert is a hotspot for astronomy. With its dry thin air and lack of light pollution, it's a perfect place for ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object called “The Cliff” appears to show that many of the mysterious “little red ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Star formation in the Milky Way’s center is a paradox nowhere is it slower than around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, but just a few hundred light-years distant, the Sagittarius B2 ...

"This is the observatory's full field of view, a rectangular area about 20 times wider than the full moon." You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy because ...

"Astronomers have been studying the heavens for thousands of years, but until recently much of the cosmos has been invisible to the human eye. Launched in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope has brought ...

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its beautiful images highlighting the intensity ...

Astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The research team, using JWST revealed something extraordinary in the galaxy: significant amounts of ...

The SETI Institute has a rich and deep history of delivering quality educator professional development. The Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) program has capitalized on access to NASA astronomy ...