For as long as humans have walked the Earth, the great endless sky and the countless stars that fill it have left us in a ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

The Wow! Signal, a mysterious 1977 radio burst, is being revisited by scientists who explore a potential link to the ...

Plasma ejections from young stars may offer valuable insights into the Sun’s early history. Most of the time, we hardly ...

It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...

The right to seek safety and move across borders, is not a privilege to be doled out to the few, but a fundamental human ...

A young Sun-like star ejected both hot (100 000 K) and cool (10 000 K) plasma in a single event, offering new insight into ...

Flashes of light seen in the sky in old astronomical photographs may reveal the presence of reflective, satellite-like ...

A bold new theory is reimagining one of art history’s most iconic scandals ... drawing on the Renaissance fascination with ...

Around the country, the clocks will go back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday to mark the return to standard time and more daylight ...