An enormous supercluster made up from over 20 individual galaxy clusters hiding behind our dusty Milky Way is even larger than astronomers had thought, affecting the motion through space of all the ...

Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA ...

Far from waging galactic warfare, astronomers use these lasers to create "artificial stars" in order to measure atmospheric ...

Astronomy and commercial space are often portrayed as being on a collision course, yet their futures are deeply intertwined. As satellite constellations expand, astronomers raise concerns about trails ...

A stellar explosion with subtle hints of a black hole binary in the background. (Courtesy: Carl Knox, OzGrav – Swinburne ...

Astronomy Hubble revisits stunning Trifid Nebula after 30 years, and spots a growing jet of energy — Space photo of the week Cosmology Largest-ever 3D map of the universe shows 47 million galaxies, ...

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The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astronomy and astrophysics with the research community, the ...

People should care about space. And not just because you have an interest in astronomy or curiosity about extraterrestrial life, you should care because, whether we like it or not, crucial sectors of ...

Space inspires wonder, but the deeper you look, the more terrifying it becomes. Beyond a tiny sliver of Earth, almost everything in the universe is instant death: vacuum, radiation, crushing pressure, ...