so you don't need a powerful telescope to participate. A separate Young Competition is open to those 15 and younger. The Young Competition is completely open and has no individual categories. The ...

Researchers also found an intriguing arrangement of stones, initially thought to be a simple calendar, which later turned out to be a complex astronomical structure. The most notable feature is a ...

The primary objective of this spacewalk is to replace critical hardware and repair the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray telescope. Listen to Story Williams and Hague will ...

That could soon change, thanks to a new NASA flagship telescope being designed to seek ... a top priority for NASA in the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (Astro2020), an ...

Now, at a conference of the American Astronomical Society being held this week in Maryland, astronomers say they combed through public data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to collect ...

and they had truly gargantuan explosions," JADES team member and Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) researcher David Coulter said at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society ...

The WNYC science program “Radiolab” partnered with the International Astronomical Union to solicit nearly 3,000 submissions. The Roman goddess of doorways and transitions won out. By Remy ...

If you have a telescope and an app to help find them ... but they'll look very close. Astronomical events: 2025 will offer rare 'blood moon' eclipse, 3 supermoons and more How to see all 12 ...

And finally, fainter Mintaka is itself a binary star with components too close to separate with a telescope ... omitted the decimal point. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly; 2020 AAVSO Mars comes ...

Listen to Story No special equipment needed to view the rare celestial event Best seen with binoculars, telescopes in areas with minimal light pollution Alignment part of January 2025's astronomical ...

Few knew President Jimmy Carter, who had a fascination with astronomy, used to go to the ... There his son Jeffrey had set up a tracking telescope, Carter said in his book, A Full Life.