For the photographers honored at the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards, the universe is their muse. From our ...

Here, we highlight the latest research within astronomy and planetary science, including solar system formation and evolution, compact objects, transient ...

Using the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured the first detailed image of our third known cosmic interloper.

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

20th-century photograph of the moon, showing Apenine, Alps, Plat, Copernicus, and Mare Imbrium regions. Possibly taken at Mt. Wilson, near Pasadena, Calif. All images from the collection of the ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Science & technology | Space. Gravitational astronomy proves its maturity With the sighting of a merger between a black hole and a neutron star. Aug 22nd 2019. Share. Listen to this story.

Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...

Carl Sagan wrote in the June 1974 issue of Astronomy: “Clearly the best time to be alive is when you start out wondering and end up knowing. There is only one generation in the whole history of ...

The science of astronomy kept rocking, and the hobby experienced a renewal as people holed up at home looked to explore the cosmos from their backyards.

I TAKE for the subject of my address the science of astronomy, and propose to give a brief historical sketch of it, to consider its future development and to speak of the influence of the sciences ...