The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...

On this list, you'll find some weird incidents on Earth, a bit of Russian space drama and, of course, that little ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Astronomy is arguably the oldest science, and has featured strongly throughout the history of Nature — the first quasar, the first exoplanet, the nature of spiral nebulae, to name but a few of the ...

The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array) radio telescope, located in theChilean Andes, has long been a key ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the Sun.

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

“With this new machine-learning tool, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope can help scientists build a more accurate 3-D map of the sun’s magnetic field,” Yang said. “It also reveals related features, ...

In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...

It came from outer space. Interstellar space, to be precise. From somewhere beyond the influence of our sun, possibly from ...