A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

The popular belief that European astronomy from the late Middle Ages and early Modern Age was more advanced than that of ...

In January 2025, the city added another feather to its cap when it launched a new Astro Trail, a curated collection of ...

While our solar system is a fascinating place on its own, exoplanets are even more of a mystery. And one exoplanet in particular is something quite new.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a federally funded research and development center for the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities for ...

Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of ...

An unexpected television signal traced to an airplane led to a new method for pinpointing unwanted radio signals, as growing ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

A full moon will rise in the sky this week but will it still be that way by the time Valentine's Day rolls around?

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...