The world—which orbits Barnard's Star, just six light-years from us—has a year that lasts barely three Earth days.

Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars—maybe even a planet, if you're ...

A new study reveals that Generation 2 Starlink satellites are leaking up to 30 times more radio waves than their predecessors ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

Más estudios del agujero negro supermasivo en la galaxia Messier 87 confirman que continúa actuando como lo predijo la teoría de la relatividad. By Dennis Overbye To dark matter and dark energy ...

Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus ...

A team of astronomers has used the Very Large Telescope to discover a humble planet orbiting Barnard's star, one of the ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever ...

Rodolfo Cortes Barragan, research scientist the University of Washington Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS), and Andrew Meltzoff, co-director of I-LABS and professor of psychology, ...

This problem is only getting worse as SpaceX, the company behind Starlink, continues to launch dozens of new satellites each ...

The European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope has collected more than 500 terabytes of data on our galaxy.

Historic Yerkes Observatory and its expansive scenic grounds in Williams Bay were bustling with activity on Sept. 24 as GLAS ...