The dramatic Marley Foundation Astronomy Discover Center at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff has a rooftop viewing deck and ...

The Very Large Array is one of the largest telescopes on Earth and a remarkable achievement in science and engineering.

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Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

A cottage industry has sprung up among astronomy enthusiasts to give a clever ... and so I had the honor of naming one deep-sky object in a universe filled with thousands of good targets.

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...

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A cutting-edge telescope array is helping scientists to pinpoint the cosmic hotspots where strange radio signals originate.

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.