November's supermoon is the second of three supermoons this year and also the closest: The moon will come within just under ...

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 ...

I/ATLAS has divided the scientific community, with experts Avi Loeb and Brian Cox disagreeing on its underlying nature ...

Learn more about the Society of Physics Students with SPS Director and AIP Student Engagement Officer Alejandro de la Puente ...

When the rings are close to edgewise, they appear less bright, presenting a fine opportunity to observe Saturn’s moons. The brightest, Titan, has a 16-day orbit, and appears farthest east of the ...

For BYU’s birthday celebration, Anderson worked with Jay Cliftmann, a 2024 BYU graduate now pursuing a Ph.D. at Penn State. Together, they explored how to “blow out targeted candles with focused loud ...

A Harvard University professor has said that 3I/ATLAS experienced a sudden "nongravitational" acceleration while passing ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

NASA joins the Roman space telescope and key instruments, marking a milestone toward its 2027 launch to reveal the cosmos.

For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona.