The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

The importance of darkness, solar eclipses, Mars, the Webb Telescope and just how dangerous space is are the subjects for ...

Satellite megaconstellations are increasingly impacting astronomical observations. Bright satellite streaks are compromising ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Stargazers rejoice! Dec. 4 marks the start of the annual Geminid meteor shower, as Earth passes through the trail of debris ...

A new survey has revealed many Brits are clueless about the solar system with four in ten unable to identify the biggest ...

Texas Tech assistant professor Elias Aydi led an international team of astronomers in publishing new findings on how stellar explosions, called novae, unfold. Using a high-resolution imaging technique ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

We see meteor showers on Earth when passing comets or asteroids shed small particles as they near the sun. Once a year, the Earth ploughs through that debris, which burns up in our atmosphere and ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Teresa Paneque learned in September that she was a top prize winner for the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence ...

Before the ribbon cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by Westfield High School Astronomy Club members Krystyna Goulette and Kaitlyn Goulette — ...