According to Paul Robertson, associate professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine, discovering new exoplanets is common ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down. At the heart of this upheaval lies the cosmic yardstick astronomers have ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

Astronomers have discovered that the iconic Pleiades cluster, long admired as the “Seven Sisters,” is only a small part of a ...

A University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa astronomer helped pull off a cosmic first: mapping the three‑dimensional shape of a star’s ...

There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...

Scientists have created the first-ever simulation that models every one of the Milky Way’s 100 billion stars, using AI to run ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious cosmic 'heartbeat' repeating every 22 minutes, unlike any known celestial object.

Observatory historian Kevin Schindler said since the passing of Percival Lowell, his endowment has been funding the majority ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...