A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

Chen-Ning “C.N.” Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and founder of Stony Brook University’s C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, died in Beijing, China at 103 years old on Saturday, Oct. 18 ...

The shower is produced by Halley’s comet’s debris, and could offer strong viewing opportunities because the moon is new this ...

A pair of once-in-a-lifetime comets are rocketing through our skies right now, and it's a rare treat because they won't be ...

Astrophysicists from Keele University, alongside an international research team supported by NASA, detected large complex ...

This summer, students at the University of Denver participated in the collaborative and innovative course, “Ways of Seeing & ...

New research suggests that dark matter may once again hold the key to one of astronomy's enduring mysteries: the excess of gamma rays shining from the ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast and enigmatic bridge of gas stretching across 185,000 light-years, connecting two distant ...