Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin spent nearly a year in “utter bewilderment” after arriving at the Harvard College ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching ...

AIP is pleased to announce Ana María Cetto as the recipient of the 2025 John Torrence Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics. Cetto was ...

Pioneering Wanda Díaz-Merced turns space data into sound, allowing visually impaired people to experience events such as black holes and sunbursts ...

As the solar system moved through this dust-rich region, Earth may have received an increased influx of interstellar particles.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...

Harvard University is imposing a temporary freeze on hiring faculty. Columbia University is grappling with cuts to $400 ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

Many personnel and financial cuts are being made under the banner of streamlining government while some funding cancellations ...