On September 14, 2015, humanity crossed a cosmic threshold. LIGO detected gravitational waves - ripples in spacetime ...

Vatican Observatory Summer School welcomes students from 21 nations to explore the universe with JWST, igniting passion for ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world's most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

Astronomers from the University of New Mexico, along with U.S. and international researchers, have confirmed the existence of ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the ...

Chile's ALMA observatory, which houses some of the world's most powerful telescopes, has captured its most detailed images to ...

Time-domain astronomy is the study of how astronomical objects change with time. Changes may be due to movement or physical changes in the object itself. Examples include pulsar variability, and ...

Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of objects and phenomena that are found beyond our solar system. This combines theoretical simulations and observation with both terrestrial and space ...