Sitting on the reference stacks at the Charlie Clark Center for Local History at Arlington Central Library are five thick, ...

A new observatory is coming on-line, and in its own way, is going to have an impact similar to what we are seeing with the James Webb Space Telescope. This ...

Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...

To teach the new generation about the importance of the First Amendment, federalism, or the separation of powers, we must ...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the SETI Institute, and the NASA Community College Network (NCCN) have teamed up to provide an exciting and impactful program that brings top astronomy ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Meteorite NWA 16788 is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth, weighing 54 pounds (24.67 kg). Discovered on November 16, ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission, which launched in March 2025, is poised to transform our understanding of the universe. By creating ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

A group of eight students from Boston University spent a month in Greece as part of the Greek Culture program, implemented in ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...