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

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

Black holes are among the most intriguing cosmic bodies, but we know little about their origins. The Pop III.1 model explains how they may have formed.

KEARNEY — A comet streaking across the night sky. The northern lights illuminating a Nebraska landscape. A supermoon rising over the horizon. They’re examples of our fascination with astronomy. At the ...

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

Astronomers have long investigated the effects of totality on the animal kingdom. Results vary from eclipse to eclipse and location to location, leaving one to wonder just what specific aspects of the ...

Veronica is a participant in the Multicultural Leadership Scholars Program and is studying Astronomy. She is known for her exceptional maturity and her ability to handle difficult situations with ...