This year marks 30 years of SOHO observing our sun, an extraordinary milestone for a mission originally expected to last only ...

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev ...

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for ...

At the unexpected intersection of astronomy and animation is Rodney Levendosky, a senior majoring in animation and visual ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

As a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, AIP is a federation that advances the success of our Member Societies and an institute that ...

A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

In a recently published study, Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo's astronomy department claims to have observed ...

Astronomers have long debated the role of galaxy mergers in powering active supermassive black holes. Now an unprecedented dataset of a million galaxies from the Euclid telescope provides evidence ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

In a groundbreaking development in the field of astronomy, scientists may have captured the first direct image of dark matter, nearly 100 years after it was first theorized. This invisible yet ...

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...