James Webb Space Telescope interferometric data indicate that hot dust near the Circinus black hole produces most infrared emission, revising earlier interpretations of outflows.

The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

Physicists and engineers at CU Boulder envision infrared astronomy telescopes that may one day span the entire globe—syncing up observations from instruments spread across the continents, or even ...

The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) arrived today at the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for its launch next month aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. The observatory was ...

Space telescopes have always been defined as much by their rockets as by their mirrors. When every kilogram to orbit costs a ...

A Cornell University-led team operating the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS), the largest of the three main instruments on NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, has discovered a mysterious population of distant ...

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The GMTO Corporation, the international consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope, today announced it has appointed Daniel T. Jaffe as ...