Fascinating if exposition heavy drama by Stella Feehily about pioneering female astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ...

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell ...

Sep. 13, 2024 — Physicists propose that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how ...

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter. By ...

Shrinivas Kulkarni won the 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his work on variable and transient astronomical objects. He spoke ...

Even if the stars within those boundaries change, the boundaries themselves do not. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Every astronomical object, regardless of its nature, now unequivocally belongs to ...

The phases of Venus, the Aurora Australis and the International Space Station transiting the Sun all feature as category winners in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Ryan Imperio ...

Fermi’s paradox relies on an idea called the cosmological principle, which is a general attitude in astronomy and cosmology that we do not occupy a privileged position in the universe.

The next day, the moon will occult Saturn, passing in front of it from our perspective. In astronomy, an occultation occurs when one celestial body passes in front of another, temporarily ...

You should consider picking up one of the best headlamps for astronomy and stargazing if you often find yourselves outdoors and staring up into the night sky. They can also be a really worthwhile ...

Sanidhya Saraf has won a silver medal at the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA 2024) held in Brazil, ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more top down than bottom up. By Katrina Miller The SpaceX capsule, whose ...