At Harvard and beyond, we’re overlooking the need for exposure to STEM among students in non-STEM fields, with serious ...

Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years across, akin to 140 Milky Way galaxies aligned. This discovery, emerging ...

A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will become a mini-moon orbiting Earth from September 29 to November 25. This temporary celestial ...

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...

Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

Gravitational lenses bend and focus light from the more distant cosmos, offering astronomers a cheat code for chronicling the ...