Galileo Galilei, the renowned Italian astronomer and physicist, made groundbreaking contributions to science in the 16th and 17th centuries. His use of the telescope led to significant astronomical ...

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 ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

We are in Germany and it's winter, so we can confidently assume that it is cold, with possible snow covering the fields and ...

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

Eleven years after Musk promised an $85 million investment, SpaceX has surpassed that goal by about 16,000%. The company has ...

Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, ...

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

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 ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...