Early depictions of alien planets in science fiction reflected pure imagination — jungles on Venus, canals on Mars, and ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

WEST BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP — Mt. Pisgah State Park will host an astronomy-minded kids program entitled “Phases of the Moon” from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Nature Center.

This summer, students at the University of Denver participated in the collaborative and innovative course, “Ways of Seeing & ...

An asteroid has been named after David Meisel, a distinguished professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at SUNY Geneseo ...

A much longer sky pattern involves Earth’s 25,720-year precession, the shifting in the direction of our poles. Once in that cycle, Polaris becomes the truest, most prominent pole star. It will reach ...

The newly found object has an estimated mass about one million times that of the Sun. Its true identity remains uncertain: it ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

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At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Evaluation of the impact of the most recent €10-million Europlanet project funded by the European Commission (EC) has been featured as a case study ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...