Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of radio astronomy, carrying out research which ...

An asteroid has been named after 19th century astronomer Annie Walker, Cambridge’s first professional female astronomer.

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

Sir Francis Graham-Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of radio astronomy, carrying out research which helped to establish our modern picture of the universe ...

The University of Hawaiʻi’s Institute for Astronomy is beginning to decommission the UKIRT telescope on Maunakea, the ...

A radio signal from the early universe could allow us to understand how everything that surrounds us began. The signal – known as the 21-centimetre signal – could finally let us understand how the ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

A science museum in Georgia is studying a piece of a meteor that blazed over the Southeast last week and was later recovered ...

Each full moon has its own name. Learn about the naming tradition, full moon dates, the first supermoon of 2025 and more.

Summer's official start comes Friday with the summer solstice. Andrew Fraknoi, astronomy professor for the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco, joined CBS news to discuss the solstice.

NASA confirms third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, traveling at 152,000 mph. The rare comet will pass closest to the Sun on ...

Monisha Ravisetti is Space.com's Astronomy Editor. She covers black holes, star explosions, gravitational waves, exoplanet discoveries and other enigmas hidden across the fabric of space and time.