Astronomers working with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have produced the sharpest wide-area map of dark matter ever assembled, more than doubling the resolution of previous efforts built on Hubble ...

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 ...

University of Louisville has decided to permanently close its planetarium, a campus facility that has not been used since the ...

It's Friday evening. You have two days to fill, no budget to speak of, and kids who will be awake by 7 a.m. asking what ...

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

New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most brilliant supernova explosions ...

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

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

Astronomers have collected evidence of a violent collision between two planets in a distant star system. The first clues of this cataclysmic event came when a rather boring star began behaving very ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...

A century after Robert Goddard's famed rocket launch, who gets to explore space? Exploring who's breaking barriers of gender, ...

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