The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

The National Science Foundation’s newest facility, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is named after the astronomer credited with the first evidence of dark matter.

NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution ...

Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

At the start of the year, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

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

The Archenhold Observatory's refracting telescope is a full 21 meters long. Looking through the powerful refractor opens up ...