The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy ...

Saturn aligns closely with the Moon in early November 2025, offering clear night sky observation. The Beaver Moon, star clusters, and planets like Jupiter are also visible.

For most of its journey 3I/ATLAS has been frozen solid, but the warming rays of our Sun are enough to unfreeze some of its gases such as carbon dioxide, generating a faint cometary tail. For a period ...

As best the origins of Earth are understood, we're all just a bunch of stardust, and new observations from the JWST lend credence to that theory.

He worked on James Webb Space Telescope, Landsat and TRMM satellites and received various awards during his career ...

In this evening's southeastern sky, you'll see a bright waxing gibbous moon to the upper right of Saturn. Both of them are at the western edge of Pisces but the ...

Telescope observations reveal material accreting onto the planet Cha1107-7626 in a way that resembles the infancy of stars ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed NGC 6537, the Red Spider Nebula in unprecedented detail, ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Indeed, the planetary nebula seen above, known as the Red Spider Nebula and imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...