Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black holes; monsters millions of times the sun’s mass, existing when the cosmos ...
The awe-inducing Vera C. Rubin Observatory does not blink. From its sky-high altitude in the Chilean Andes, Rubin will image ...
A group of distinguished scientists have slammed the government’s withdrawal from a major European space observatory over ...
Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever detection of a mid-IR flare from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive massive ...
Astronomy advocacy groups are ringing alarm bells about two proposed satellite constellations, warning that they threaten to change the sky forever. According to the RAS, SpaceX’s proposed ...
Astronomy and commercial space are often portrayed as being on a collision course, yet their futures are deeply intertwined. As satellite constellations expand, astronomers raise concerns about trails ...
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image ...
The Group of 7, which now leads the global order, had already recognized the strategic value of astronomy one to two centuries ago.