Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured clear, detailed images of two stars explosions just days after their eruption.

A Texas Tech Assistant Astronomy Professor, Elias Aydi, along with other astronomers, used a cutting-edge technique to ...

A new NASA-led study found that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...

Megaconstellations” of vast numbers of satellites could threaten space-based astronomy, scientists have warned. In recent years, companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX have launched thousands of new ...

PASADENA, Calif.--The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists who study the outer reaches of space are about to get some space of their own with the official opening of the Cahill ...

The study of astronomy is nonstop life theater. There is always something interesting going on, whether it be on Mars, the outer solar system, deep space or somewhere else. And sometimes it’s hard to ...

Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

Recent research challenges the prevailing theory that hot Jupiters (gas giants orbiting close to their stars) form through a disruptive process that prevents the existence of smaller planets in the ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...