For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

The stars aligned for the planetarium's dome to become the backdrop for four readings of 'REDshift,' by playwright Chalmers ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep ... For instance, the most distant objects in JWST's first deep-field view — which appear red because light traveling such a distance ...

Southworth presents the world premier of REDshift, a play inside the planetarium about Elisse, a high-functioning autistic young woman whose passion leads her to use the Hubble Space Telescope to ...

Cosmic Leviathan: A galaxy cluster, resembling a submerged sea monster, distorts spacetime around it, as captured by the ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe transformed cosmology, revealing countless galaxies and laying the ...