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.

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

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

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

Born Nov. 2, 1885, In Missouri, Harlow Shapley earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1913. From 1914 to 1921, he was ...

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 ...

The Shumway Oak Grove Regional Park in Stockton launched an autumn nature walk for the community to get an inside look at how important California's historic oak trees are, especially during the fall.

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 ...