Scientists discovered that Barnard’s Star wobbles a full 20 inches (50 cm) per second — five times Earth’s effect on the Sun ...

Whipple Observatory set to reopen with new Science Center, expanding access to astronomy for rural communities ...

"The supernova was named 'supernova Hope' since it gives astronomers hope to better understand the universe’s changing expansion rate." ...

The question remains whether the proposal will give new life to the former site, or be a ghost of its former self.

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

My recent visit to Berlin for a planetary science conference coincided with Berlin Art Week. The exhibitions were mostly ...

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

NSF & the Simons Foundation will jointly fund two new National AI Research Institutes for astronomy. Each institute will ...

Dr. Ian Weaver, the Unistellar Education lead at the SETI Institute, shared his experiences from two star parties hosted with ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have captured the first images of a planet in outer space with ...

The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

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 ...