The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Follow-up observations from the Gemini-North telescope on Hawaii Island and the Very Large Telescope in Chile returned ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

The first image of M87* — and humanity's first image of any black hole, for that matter — was taken by the EHT in 2017 and released to the public in 2019. It was notable for its bright golden ring, ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in ...