As a joke, she labelled it LGM 1 for “Little Green Men”, but the astronomers working on it did not really believe they had ...

The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

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

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

Two new papers delve into mysterious lights and objects that were observed in the sky years before the first satellite ...

History doesn’t have to be a dusty museum or a long list of dates, it can be a thrilling adventure that families actually ...

Astronomers have identified 3I/ATLAS, an ancient, ice-rich interstellar comet potentially older than our solar system.

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 ...