In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

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

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) will be hosting a double-header at ...

To celebrate the fifth edition of National Space Day, the Embassy of Italy in Zagreb, in collaboration with the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Zagreb (Fer) and the ...

Being slight oddities, brown dwarfs occupy a strange but useful niche in astronomy. Unlike exoplanets, which are often ...

Chase Sui Wonders always thought she was “kind of funny,” but it was officially confirmed after booking “The Studio” after ...

The observatory atop Witmer Hall is one half of the project. The other half, a laser lab, resides in the basement.

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

What is the Geminid Meteor Shower? The Geminid meteor shower occurs each December as Earth intersects a dense stream of debris left by the asteroid 3,200 Phaethon. This asteroid, which orbits the sun ...

Avi Loeb (AL): A comet is defined as an object that sheds dust and gas as a result of the illumination of pockets of ice on ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...