Both of Friday’s Astronomical Unit lectures are related to celestial phenomena not discernible to human senses. David ...

JWST infrared technology pierces cosmic dust with unmatched clarity, revealing hidden star nurseries and structures no ...

Infrared light, unlike visible light, can penetrate interstellar dust clouds, allowing astronomers to observe celestial objects obscured in the visible spectrum, such as the galactic center and the ...

It is 20 years ago this year that Europe, in collaboration with the United States, launched the first infrared observatory into space. Its infrared powers revealed a secret universe that, to this day, ...

The telescope 'time machine' will deliver 13.5 billion years of cosmic history. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The newest deep ...

How do you spot 2,500 hidden galaxies within an area of sky already thoroughly searched by Hubble for more than a decade? The James Webb Space Telescope’s new MIRI Deep Imaging Survey has precisely ...

Recent research conducted by astronomers from the University of Southampton and an international team revealed that approximately 35% of supermassive black holes in the universe are concealed from ...

At the dawn of the universe, there was only hydrogen and helium. These elements made up all the galaxies and all the stars. But stars fuse hydrogen and helium into heavier elements, and large stars ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

A NASA mission that was retired in 2022 has helped scientists detect water on the surface of two asteroids. Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute were able to use data from the retired ...