Meet Nancy Grace Roman, the "mother" of the Hubble Space Telescope
She discovered fundamental truths about stars and galaxies, and also shaped NASA into what we know it as today
The Last Stargazer takes an intimate view of the world through telescopes
Emily Levesque's portrait of "delightful isolation" is astronomer-approved
Community scientists have discovered an unusual brown dwarf star
Paul Beaulieu and Austin Rothermich were participating in the Backyard Worlds project. You can, too!
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A "strange, giant" galaxy is breaking all the rules
Without a supermassive black hole to stop them from forming, why aren’t there any young stars?
The first ever image of a black hole's swirling magnetic field is released
The Event Horizon Telescope has taken a new image of black hole M87, revealing its magnetic field
Combined optical and X-ray image of Uranus.
Chandra image gallery. X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory.
Uranus emits extra x-rays, and scientists don't know why
They could be just reflections, or Uranus could have its own version of the Northern Lights
Two mistakes by a pair of astronomers expanded our knowledge of dying stars
Wade and Hjellming were initially looking for red supergiants. They didn't find them, but that doesn't mean they failed
Astronomers are turning orbits and planetary rings into mournful, loud music
Modern astronomers are picking up where Kepler left off. In Mars's winds and Saturn's rings, they find music
How to become a galaxy hunter: an interview with Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
The University of Chicago astronomer talks about getting a galaxy named after herself and fighting for telescope time
Meet Antonia Maury, astronomy's renegade who changed the way we classify stars
Maury was part of a group of brilliant women known as the "Harvard Computers"
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You can mimic the physics happening on the surface of the Sun in your kitchen
As the plasma on the Sun's surface heats and cools, it forms cells the size of Texas
Meet Maria Mitchell, the first American to discover a comet
She imagined what potential there would be if women were allowed to pursue something they were passionate about
Meet Vera Rubin, the stargazer who predicted dark matter
From childhood, she preferred 'to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep'
Searching for bird poop helped us understand the origins of the universe
How do you win a Nobel Prize? Persistence, patience and some very stubborn birds.