This is the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet beyond our solar system with an atmosphere. Astronomers using the James ...

Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Dec. 13 with free admission and a special ...

Being slight oddities, brown dwarfs occupy a strange but useful niche in astronomy. Unlike exoplanets, which are often ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sharp eye toward a ghostly swirl of stars and gas known as the "Lost Galaxy," given ...

There’s still so much we’ve yet to learn about black holes, but the latest notable discovery is changing attitudes towards them in the scientific community. Normally, we think of black holes as huge ...

The Geminids peak annually in mid-December, when Earth passes through a dense trail of cosmic dust left behind by the ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

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

Meteors from the Geminid shower can be colorful, with hues ranging from green to purple and amber. And sometimes they streak ...

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

A pioneering project explores how stargazing can ease anxiety, boost mood and strengthen family bonds, using the night sky as ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...