Lowell Observatory is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Gerard van Belle as the new Director of Science. Van Belle, ...

From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA ...

Artist concept highlighting the novel approach proposed by the 2025 NIAC awarded selection of Inflatable Starshade for ...

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock ...

European countries have built some of the best telescopes in the world in Chile at a cost of several billion euros.

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is due to launch in spring 2027 to search for exoplanets, among other things. It has ...

An international team of astronomers has detected over 40 individual stars in a galaxy located 6.5 billion light-years away.

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye" culminating several years of ...

Planet X, also called Planet Nine, is a hypothetical planetary body seven times the mass of Earth lurking behind Pluto. If ...