Astronomers around the world will have immediate access to early data from specific science observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which will be completed within the first five months of ...

Observation is fundamental to science. In fact, one could even argue that science is observation, nourished and channeled for the purpose of better understanding what our world is and how it works.

2025 has been quite the year for astronomy and space, new discoveries and Northern Lights. One story rose above all the others — new and older telescopes are putting us on the cusp of monumental ...

Record-breaking total of 15,000+ citizen science observations from the SETI Institute & Unistellar Network — up substantially from ~10,000 in 2024. Observers are already tracking fading 3I/ATLAS, new ...

Recent advances in cometary science have yielded unprecedented insights into the composition, dynamics and evolution of cometary nuclei and their surrounding comae. Studies now demonstrate that comets ...

Erin Roger works for the Atlas of Living Australia and CSIRO Cameron Slatyer works for the Atlas of Living Australia. Dax Kellie works for the Atlas of Living Australia and CSIRO. Citizen science ...