Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by ...

The 2026 budget request states that NSF will operate only one of the two LIGO sites, drastically reducing its cosmic ...

Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, "missing link" phase of its evolution.

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...

Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...

A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James ...

July 2024 brought a heat wave to Arizona as well as an unprecedented software outage across the nation. But for Richard ...

Jeremy Darling’s novel approach applies astrometry to detect the gravitational wave background, offering new insights into the early universe and large-scale cosmic events.

Even a temporary shutdown will delay scientific progress and result in America losing ground to international researchers.

The galaxy clusters involved in this scuffle are part of a larger system—a “combined” galaxy cluster—called PSZ2 G181. In a ...

Chinese and German scientists have utilized the Transit Timing Variation technique to locate an exoplanet super-Earth for the ...