Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
It's complicated. Radio astronomers have been competing for years for a frequency spectrum, they have this national and international relations about who gets what frequencies on the radio ...
Using an instrument on the 4.1-meter Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope, researchers have obtained the first astronomical spectrum using skipper charge-coupled devices (CCDs). The results ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Breakthrough Listen, one of Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Initiatives, is investigating a signal known as Breakthrough Listen ...
The NASA AAA program currently also offers an Astronomy Academy for teacher professional development with virtual and in-person opportunities. Educators and administrators can register to receive ...