The Franklin Institute will celebrate International Astronomy Day with a lineup of space-themed activities on Saturday, April ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT capturing the universe’s most distant gigamaser to Ghana’s radio ...

Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth's history that created the moon.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the most precisely aligned structures in the ancient world. Its sides point almost ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

Associate Professor Hanae Inami at the Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center specializes in astronomy, with a particular focus on galaxies beyond the Milky Way — a field known as extragalactic ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

Bangladesh has growing academic interest in astrophysics but lacks the infrastructure for observational research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The next ORION program will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at the City Room, (Room A-111), McNally-Coffey building at ...

UofL to permanently close planetarium after years of uncertainty ...