The National Science Foundation’s newest facility, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is named after the astronomer credited with the first evidence of dark matter.

Dr. Vera Rubin, a Cornell graduate whose research confirmed the existence of dark matter, will be featured on a U.S. quarter ...

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Earth will pass between the sun and moon on the night of March 13 into the morning of March 14, creating a total lunar ...

An amature astronomer spotted a near Earth object and alerted authorities only to realize it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular are not going to take these threats lying down." ...

Blue Origin's 10th space tourism flight, nicknamed "Perfect 10," took off from West Texas on Tuesday. The six-person crew launched into suborbital space on the New Shepard Rocket and landed safely 10 ...

Astronomer Gerard van Belle discusses the cosmic event that’ll take place on Friday night as seven planets align in a ...

Astronomers detected a 40-to-80-meter asteroid, dubbed a “city killer,” with the potential to collide with Earth in 2032, but Reynier Squillace is not worried. Squillace is a second-year graduate ...

Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading data orchestration and observability platform powered by Apache Airflow®, today announced the findings from its State of Airflow Report 2025. Based on ...

"It is a really rare thing to have all seven of the planets there on the same kind of side of the sky," said local astronomer ...