The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — ...

A brilliant meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth's atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, ...

NASA and the European Space Agency launched an astronomical revolution. When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange object in our galaxy that flashes every 44 minutes—and it’s unlike anything we’ve seen ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

By combining observations from NASA’s powerful Chandra X-ray Observatory and Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope on Wajarri Country, astronomers zeroed in on an object named ASKAP J1832−0911 (or simply ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) presents an unprecedented opportunity ... These libraries include reflectance measurements from the visible to near-infrared spectrum, ...

Using various ground-based and space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has observed a highly variable young ...

A combination of X-ray from NASA's Chandra observatory and radio data indicates that a galactic "fracture" was likely caused by a special neutron star called a pulsar.

The infrared views, captured in 2023, shed light on the giant planet's atmosphere and magnetosphere—but they also reveal something unexpected ...