Webb Telescope Captures a Cosmic Wonder
A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...
Since its launch in August 2003, says Robert Kennicutt, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope "has opened up half the universe to us." In the process ...
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope spotted a region of the Milky Way that is building stars at a rapid pace. These so-called “Star Factories” are filled with gas and dust that form into all ...
IT is easy to feel like we know nothing about our universe, and unexplained stellar objects are the most puzzling feature of ...
Astronomers examined galaxy Arp 107 which has revealed a wealth of information about star-formation and how two galaxies collided hundreds of million years ago. Arp 107 is located 465 million ...
In a new study published in Nature, researchers using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a rare glimpse at the surface of one particular exoplanet. The world, called LHS 3844b ...
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory imaged the extremely luminous afterglow of explosion GRB 080319B using its X-ray Telescope (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (right). NASA's Wide-field ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...