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, ...

When he was just a kid, Roy Beebe decided that illness was unnecessary. He resolved to spend his life hunting for a cureall. In 1910 he saw Halley’s comet through a homemade telescope and decided that ...

Adding significantly more detail means better future investigations into the universe's past.

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside have produced the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever made, ...

Cosmic Girl, Virgin Orbit’s specially modified jumbo jet designed to serve as a flying launchpad, touched down Monday afternoon at Long Beach Airport to the delight of those working to help the ...

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 ...

James Webb Space Telescope data has allowed researchers to map the cosmic web in the greatest detail ever achieved.