On what would've been the astronomer's 90th trip around the sun, here's a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and ...

Using the CHIME telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected a new repeating fast radio burst (FRBs) source ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

A team of scientists recently used astronomy to date Vincent van Gogh’s painting Lane of Poplars at Sunset. The painting ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we ...