Building on the synergy between citizen astronomer classifications and AI, astronomers have discovered approximately 400,000 spiral galaxies and 30,000 ring...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky...
Astronomers are currently enjoying a fruitful period of discovery, investigating the many mysteries of the early universe. The successful launch...
The rate at which the universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for...
A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using...
Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the closest recorded occurrence of a star being...
Scientists have revealed why some white dwarfs mysteriously stop cooling—changing ideas on just how old stars really are and what...
Using some of the largest telescopes in the world, including the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers discovered three new...
Betelgeuse is a well-known red supergiant star in the constellation Orion. Recently it has gained a lot of attention, not...
When it launches in October, the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a richly layered dispatch that includes more than...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its collaborators have delivered a small but mighty advancement in timing...
When it was first discovered in 2004, Apophis was identified as one of the most dangerous asteroids in that there...