This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, ...

The movement known as Light and Space emerged in Southern California in the 1960s when a loosely affiliated group of artists began to investigate the potential of light as both medium and message, ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a puzzling population of galaxies that look far too bright for their age. In four patches of sky, covering more than 500 square ...

In September 2021, Steve Schulze, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, was poring over astronomical data. One event—an extremely luminous object about 2.2 billion light-years away—caught his ...

AST SpaceMobile Unfolds Giant Satellites, Astronomers Fret About Light Pollution The company's five BlueBird satellites—each of which feature a 700-square-foot panel—are now among 'the most luminous ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope that has NASA and others stumped on how to give it one tidy label. It seems the luminous object located about 390 ...

A James Webb Telescope image shows the J0148 quasar circled in red. Two insets show, on top, the central black hole, and on bottom, the stellar emission from the host galaxy. MIT astronomers have ...