The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

As this month's string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide ...

The city, located close to both mountains and beaches, benefits from a fairly small population and excellent air quality.

A faculty member from Mississippi State University has discovered a new asteroid, a first for the Magnolia State.

The discovery was confirmed by the Minor Planet Center, the world’s official authority for verifying new asteroid findings ...

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside ...

Four Hawaiʻi Island high school students in July — participants in the first Project Hōkūlani summer internship program ...

To close this gap, NASA is building the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to detect asteroids using ...

Astrophysicist Thomas Bensby is an observational astronomer of stars and the director of graduate studies at Lund University’s department of physics. Thomas uses spectroscopy, a technique used to ...

The preview at the new Stamford Museum & Nature Center included a 5-minute show in the planetarium. This image of ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system.