NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

The NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory has officially begun its journey to map the universe, and it started with a remarkable feat: ...

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...

Ouranos is an AI-powered astronomy weather app that helps moon watchers find the best nights to observe the sky.

The book recalls the work of Acharya Kanad, an ancient Indian philosopher, in chapter titled 'Particulate Nature of Matter'.

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

If city lights block the stars over your backyard, this map can help you hunt down the darkest skies for epic stargazing.

The discovery was made by researchers Georgi Georgiev and Ivelina Georgieva during an expedition near the village of Skobelevo. Initial assessments suggest the artifact could be among the earliest ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...