Recent astronomical studies suggest a compelling new perspective on our place in the universe: it is now believed to be 100 ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are ...

That appears to be changing, with adjustments to the astronomy curriculum that faculty believe will make an astronomy minor more accessible to students with a deep interest in the subject but a ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for ...

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.

Largest-ever survey shows new regulations on unintended transmissions are needed, say researchers at Australia’s Curtin University ...

An international team led by Dr. Hila Glanz of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has uncovered a new origin for hypervelocity white dwarfs — stellar remnants racing through space at more ...

to study the planet further. But two scientists at the University of Chicago — Dr. Rafael Luque, a postdoctoral scholar in the university’s department of astronomy and astrophysics, and Michael Zhang, ...

The York County Astronomical Society will have a public event Saturday, Aug. 30, at their observatory located at John Rudy ...