In this combined image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the star’s dusty outer layers are unraveling into space, glowing from the intense ...

The night sky and the Milky Way above Kitt Peak Observatory. Tucson is on the right, and Phoenix is on the left. The WIYN 0.9 meter telescope is close in the foreground. According to Jacelle Ramon ...

Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

NEID is mounted on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory ... period of 570 days and a mass of 12 Jupiter masses and orbits a star ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration that maps the universe's 3D large-scale structure by measuring redshifts of tens of millions of celestial ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take ...

Or take a road trip and visit Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson ... including Percival Lowell’s original telescope. Guided tours take guests through the Clark Telescope Dome, where ...

Or take a road trip and visit Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson for a glimpse ... including Percival Lowell’s original telescope. Guided tours take guests through the Clark Telescope Dome, ...