JACKSON COUNTY, MI - Jackson College is hosting a week of free astronomy programming featuring University of Michigan astronomer Dr. Teresa Paneque-Carreño from Oct. 19-22, offering community members ...

Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding the Universe’s earliest moments, measuring the amount of ...

A University of Michigan astronomer with more than a million social media followers is spending the week in Jackson, leading ...

A rare form of the organic alcohol methanol is present around at least one of the very young stars still embedded within it.

A University of Missouri astronomer is leading a team of 130 researchers from 62 institutions—including NASA, the California ...

A team of astronomers may have detected the gamma-ray signature produced when antimatter particles, or positrons, collide ...

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising rainbow of dead stars, including the first known star that would appear genuinely ...

Surveys selected by brightness can give a different impression of the population. Hotter, bluer white dwarfs shine more ...

Uranus and Neptune may not share the same origins after all. A new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics reveals a ...

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Astronomers used galaxy cluster MACS J0416 (background), as a magnifying glass to view the extremely faint galaxy LAP1-B (inset), which is visualized here based on ...

Astronomers have spotted many "red and dead" galaxies in the early universe. These are massive systems that stopped forming stars surprisingly early in cosmic history. Now, they may have found ...