In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...

North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different ...

Since the middle of the month, four of the five brightest planets in the night sky have been visible after sunset and will ...

Illinois stargazers have the chance to see a "planet parade" this January, with four bright planets to be visible in a single line of sight. There also are three chances to see a supermoon later this ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Get ready for lift off when the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Astronomy Days, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1-2, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Go on a celestial ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

Two 40-meter diameter radio telescopes in Changbai Mountain, Jilin province, and Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region, have been put into operation, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a planet so extraordinary it has defied all existing ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.