Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

Astronomers have witnessed the earliest gathering of galaxies ever seen, taking place about 12.8 billion years ago. The ...

Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen ...

"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions ...

Industrial runoff and continued habits of disposing of chemical materials across the country and in Mississippi have led to an increase in toxic materials in the state’s waterways. Many of these ...

Jupiter has had its length and breadth measured again, and it turns out the giant planet is skinnier and shorter than ...

Martian Moon Deimos Might Have Reshaped Itself and Its Orbit: Dr. Matija Ćuk, SETI Institute research scientist, and collaborators propose that Mars’s smaller moon may have undergone repeated ...

ASKAP J1832-0911 pulses every 44 minutes in radio and X-rays. See what astronomers observed, why it’s unusual, and what comes next.

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way’s most important features cannot be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a flagship space observatory with a price tag big enough to spark debates—and confusing enough that two people can ...

The Heineman Foundation, AIP, and AAS are pleased to announce Alice Shapley as the winner of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. Shapley ...