Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect...
Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our...
Yale astronomers may have discovered the origin story for one of the universe’s most dazzling phenomena—the double hot Jupiter—as well...
Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered a key piece of the puzzle in how rocky planets, such as...
The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time,...
An international team of astronomers including researchers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has unveiled groundbreaking findings...
Astronomers have discovered a “jellyfish” galaxy whose unusual shape and internal mechanisms—including distinctive “bunny ears” and an inner “tail”—are giving...
About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity....
Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely...
In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map...
