But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for ...

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 ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered ...