Researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the Sun.

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

The astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station spent their first full week as Expedition 74 crewmates.

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these ...

For generations, school posters have sorted the Solar System into tidy boxes: four small rocky planets near the Sun, two huge gas planets farther out, and, at the edge, a pair of “ice giants” – Uranus ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has once again dazzled scientists and stargazers alike with a striking image of a galaxy once ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

University of Iowa researchers have discovered a method to "purify" photons, an advance that could make optical quantum ...

Teresa Paneque learned in September that she was a top prize winner for the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications for her social media work, previous book ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...