Sunlight looks smooth and white to the naked eye, but when I break it apart with a prism or a spectrograph, it turns out to ...

For more than two centuries, astronomers have treated the Sun’s spectrum as a solved problem, a textbook example of how light ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...

In recent years, astronomers have become increasingly interested in a theoretical particle known as the axion, which was ...

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded ...

Social posts show people questioning flecks and specks in the Central Valley fog. They say it's more gelatinous than liquid, and something may be afoot. Researchers say what they're seeing is real, ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to ...

Were any potential all-time great pictures made this year? Perhaps Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value has a shot. It does remarkably well in capturing one family’s relationship in somewhat universal ...