American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers says that instead of stressing about the near miss, we can be excited by ...

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond what we thought. And indeed, a long way from Neptune an ...

In space news: the SpaceX rocket blew up again,” Astronomy Club president Mia Bridges ’25 said. The club members scattered in Small Hall 122 nodded attentively. One person laughed. The College of ...

Pioneering Wanda Díaz-Merced turns space data into sound, allowing visually impaired people to experience events such as black holes and sunbursts ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to reduce these tensions.

SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy.

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the ...