Little more than 50 years ago, Australian and British astronomers dazzled the world with their newly commissioned ...

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...

Zinia Khattar of San Diego, the second Fellow, was awarded a $50,000 science scholarship. “Being named a Davidson Fellow is a very welcome surprise,” Smith said. “I am thankful to see how much my ...

The winners of the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award have been announced. The Royal Observatory Greenwich in England holds the competition every year and exhibits their work.

See the crescent moon shine with Mars at sunset on Sept. 24. The crescent moon shines close to Mars above the western horizon ...

Euclid mission has published the most extensive simulation of the cosmos to date. The modeling was based on algorithms ...

NASA is set to launch the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory mission in September 2025, honoring the late Dr. George R. Carruthers, whose groundbreaking work at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) ...

Six members of Wesleyan faculty were recognized for their outstanding research and leadership at a faculty meeting on Sept. 9 ...

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, to occur in a single day.

As with many big space stories, 3I/ATLAS is getting a fair share of attention as well as some more controversial theories ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water. Recent observations with NASA’s advanced JWST telescope have revealed a ...