Working through years’ worth of data from an old observational campaign, a team of astronomers have directly imaged a new ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago have developed a framework that could yield more accurate ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

In fact, we can't see it at all. And yet, its invisible pull shapes galaxies, hinting that something massive -- and ...

Like most Filipinos overseas, one of the first things we did during the annual Hong Kong Laureate Forum was look for ...

A New Mexico college campus is working towards having its own astronomy center, and it’s not just a place to gaze at the ...

It’s certainly a fun thought experiment — would it actually be possible to launch a supervillain directly into the sun like ...

The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...