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

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 ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

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

Medney (" Beyond Kuiper ") and co-author Don Macnab-Stark have crafted an intelligent examination of the human condition in the 23rd century as it surges into an existential era of decision, and we’ve ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

Subjects including linguistics, international studies and human-centered design and engineering all halted taking ...

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

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

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 ...