The Rho Ophiuchi nebula system is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and as such has come under the scrutiny of both ...

Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.

There are tens of billions of Sun-like stars in the Milky Way, an immense tally that encourages the possibility that ...

Vermont-based astrophotographer Michele Hernandez Bayliss has captured stunning views of Messier 94 - also known as the ...

Astronomers are nearing a statistically significant finding that could confirm the potential signs of life detected on the distant exoplanet K2-18b are no accident. The team of astronomers, led by ...

“It’s very different than my usual meetings in the scientific arena,” declared honoree and astronomer Wendy Freedman, beaming in a red off-the-shoulder gown. “When I go to the ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ... Using data from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Buzzo and her team tracked the movement of a dozen star clusters within FCC 224.

Someplace in the wide night sky, a small, doomed planet is disintegrating before our very eyes. Researchers at MIT have found a rocky planet about 140 light-years from our world that is being ...

Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced last week that they have discovered a new planet, about the mass of Mercury, that is “crumbling to pieces” about 140 light ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24 ... but in how science-packed they typically are, providing astronomers with the data to measure the age and expansion rate of the universe ...

Every fall, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics Andrew Skemer takes the new cohort of first-year graduate students to Lick Observatory. Since it began operating in 1888, the observatory has been at ...

Smithsonian STARS— Scientists Taking Astronomy to Rural Schools— aims to bridge gaps in access to hands-on STEM learning opportunities for children in rural and tribal nation schools by providing a ...