The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight, offering a spectacular celestial display visible worldwide, though Northern Hemisphere viewers will see more.

Students from Pune Zilla Parishad schools say they gained an entirely different perspective on public life in the US, an ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded did not behave like a quick cosmic flash. Instead, it burned across the sky for ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago have developed a framework that could yield more accurate ...

Working through years’ worth of data from an old observational campaign, a team of astronomers have directly imaged a new ...

Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, antimatter, atomic and molecular physics and more. The Top Ten is the ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those galaxies, and the discovery is thanks to an artificial intelligence tool that was ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) is pleased to announce the appointment ...