In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

A 20-year-old planetarium, never used before, rediscovered by accident, now helps students explore constellations from new perspectives.

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

As the night grows long and the winter solstice approaches, there’s a host of astronomical events to watch out for, including ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you face, other than capturing your enemy and/or convincing them to step into ...

Naseemah Mohamed’s newest genealogy course helps students recover family history and connect with their roots.

The Subaru Telescope’s new Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) now carries the name ʻŌnohiʻula, following a naming ceremony Nov.

PASADENA, CA – Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, has been honored with the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his pioneering discoveries related to millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and ...

Professor of physics and astronomy Darryl Stanford uses the planetarium at the College of San Mateo to show what can be seen ...

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev ...