A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...

Astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The research team, using JWST revealed something extraordinary in the galaxy: significant amounts of ...

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was ...

The film features John Kieran explaining the phenomenon of solar and lunar eclipses in a simple and engaging manner. He ...

Scientists have discovered two enigmatic icy objects in deep space that defy explanation. Unlike typical interstellar ice ...

According to Gerard van Belle, director of science at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, an alignment of seven planets is neither mystical nor particularly rare. “On the scale of supermoon to death ...

So what does such a planetary alignment mean for science? Well, truthfully, not much. A planetary alignment occurs "when the planets 'line up' on the same side of the sun, generally speaking ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction." Many of the extraordinary features of WASP-121 b arise from the fact that it is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant planet with around 1.2 times the ...

An annual event over recent years, the I Heart Pluto Festival in Flagstaff, Arizona, celebrates the history, heritage, and cutting-edge astronomy ... KNAU science reporter Melissa Sevigny steered ...

So, did I predict this object? In science you not only have to be right, you have to be right for the right reason. In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had drifted apart ...

Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images Print Collector Estimating distances in astronomy is challenging. Think of how hard it is to estimate the distance of someone pointing a ...