Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

A new study has connected the famous m87 black hole, the first ever imaged, to its powerful cosmic jet, revealing how it ...

Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using telescopes ...

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

The comet broke into pieces after making a close approach around the sun in October 2025.

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...

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.