Earth will have a close shave with two asteroids - Apophis and Asteroid YR4 2024. In 2029, 99942 Apophis will fly by at an eerily close distance and will be visible even to the naked eye. In 2032, YR4 ...

Get ready to reach for the stars as the Penn State Eberly College of Science prepares to host the 26th annual AstroFest, an astronomy-filled celebration running from ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

Jee compared dark matter to crystal-clear water in a pond, with pebbles as the galaxies. “You cannot see the water unless there is wind, which causes ripples. Those ripples distort the shapes of the ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes ...

But researchers have just demonstrated that once you are far away from the planets of the Solar System, there might be a ...

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

President Donald Trump's NASA nominee Jared Isaacman is seen during a U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation confirmation hearing on Wednesday, April 09, 2025.

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We’re essentially opening a new window on the transient universe” said Matthew Siebert of the Space Telescope Science Institute, capturing the awe that swept through the astrophysics community after ...

Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up in Detroit with a camera in her hand, Sophia Roberts — now an award-winning ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the ...