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.

NASA solar astronomer Mitzi Adams builds the enthusiasm of hundreds of young stargazers for searching the sky and pursuing careers in science and astronomy. Adams, who studies the sun’s turbulent ...

Another interesting consequence of relativity is that as time stretches out at high speeds, distances diminish. It’s hard to ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...

The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in the cosmos.

The discovery is only one of a handful of enigmatic objects called ORCs that have ever been found. And their origins are ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency radio light, revealing a spectacular realm ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

A nerdy love of science fiction, a yearning for adventure, a passion for science and a foundation of Jesuit education all helped in some way to lead a man from Detroit, Michigan, to become a master of ...

In the 1960s, celebrated radio astronomer Frank Drake proposed his eponymous equation, which attempted to wrangle with the probability of finding extraterrestrial life — at least, the kind that we ...

A monumental moment for astronomy is approaching as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory prepares to unveil its first images on Monday, June 23. The event marks a key milestone for the observatory, which has ...