A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of stellar nursery 30 Doradus, nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula. The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-infrared Instrument (MIRI) ...