A team of astrophysicists led by Lauren Weiss, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University...
NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million...
A study from Tel Aviv University has predicted for the first time the groundbreaking results that can be obtained from...
The James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on...
Why are some black holes bigger than others? An astronomer explains how these celestial vacuums grow
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
The Saturnian moon Enceladus presents a unique opportunity in our solar system to search for evidence of life, given its...
A team of astronomers has used asteroseismology, or the study of stellar oscillations, to accurately measure the distance of stars...
A study published today (Dec. 15) in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics reveals the discovery of two new planetary systems...
Not all discoveries turn out to be actual new discoveries. This was the case for the extremely red objects (EROs)...
A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth. The...
Two galaxies in the early universe, which contain extremely productive star factories, have been studied by a team of scientists...
A study zooms in on data that NASA’s Cassini gathered at Saturn’s icy moon and finds evidence of a key...













