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

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...

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

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

A massive meteorite called the "largest piece of Mars on Earth" was sold for millions of dollars at a New York City auction. A bidder won the 55-pound space rock for $5,296,000 on Wednesday, July 16, ...

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

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

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc ...

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled across the cosmos and shook the foundations of astrophysical theory.

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