Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

Mid-November is jam-packed with astronomy events, including the Leonid meteor shower ... The term supermoon is more than a viral nickname. As the moon orbits the Earth, it reaches points where it is ...

“Astronomers invented dark matter to explain how you get from a very smooth early universe to big galaxies with lots of empty ...

An international research team, including Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum, has discovered a trio of supermassive “Red Monster” ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study.

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

There is a 50% chance that global warming will consistently exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next six years, according to a new report.

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

A short novel set on the International Space Station by British author Samantha Harvey in the 2024 winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a link between black holes and stellar eruptions, suggesting the potential existence of ...

Studying CMEs as close to the Sun as possible, in their earliest evolutionary phases, and following the same events as they reach farther distances (e.g., near Earth) is essential ... physics at the ...