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

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

We have never had such a big telescope imaging so wide and so deep,” remarked Anais Möller, an astrophysicist at Swinburne ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

Discover the legacy of NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), a modified C-141A Starlifter that advanced infrared ...

Following a multimillion-dollar expansion program in recent times, sudden harsh science cuts are challenging America’s ...

The telescopes at Lick may be vintage, but scientists at the observatory continue to discover new planets and examine ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

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.

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have ...