Today’s brightly lit cities aren’t usually the places where new deep-sky objects are discovered, but in the 19th century, gas streetlights didn’t produce much light pollution. In November 1885, ...

We love when astronomers share the images they capture with the James Webb Space Telescope because they are so dang beautiful ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe’s “cosmic web” — the enormous hidden structure that connects galaxies across space. By analyzing ...

A year ago, George Smoot won the Nobel Prize for physics. He used $500,000 of his award to finance a dream, and on Tuesday it came to life: the $8.1 million Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics.

Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope , astronomers led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside ...

Caltech astronomers have taken unprecedented images of the intergalactic medium (IGM)—the diffuse gas that connects galaxies throughout the universe—with the Cosmic Web Imager, an instrument designed ...

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST ), astronomers led by researchers at the University of California ...