Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of objects and phenomena that are found beyond our solar system. This combines theoretical simulations and observation with both terrestrial and space ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Two astronauts — one ...

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

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead. This coming week includes a naked-eye comet ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most ...

Previous research has spied strange "rainbows" and iron rain in its scalding-hot atmosphere, but according to a new paper in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the day side of the planet is ...

The Sci-Tech announces a free public astronomy observing session on Friday, October 11 at 8:30 p.m. The observing night will ...

Jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation, the highly competitive grant will establish the ...