Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Webb’s sharper vision has revealed many disk-shaped galaxies from the early universe, and now, a small but growing number of ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Earlier this year, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) was alerted after an unusual source of visible light had been detected by a survey telescope. The VLT, together ...

A futuristic telescope design could one day let scientists finally look at fine details of the atmosphere of Earth-sized exoplanets — confirming if some are potentially habitable worlds. It would do ...

The B.S. in astronomy & astrophysics at UW offers students an adventurous course of study in astronomical objects—from stars to black holes to solar systems—and their properties and functions. The ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...