There will be three meteor showers, a "Super Beaver Moon," and a micromoon. And no telescope will be needed to see them.

Behind the Sun, the comet appears to show signs of acceleration beyond what is expected by gravity. And for reasons not yet ...

The interstellar object 3I/Atlas has left astronomers amazed after data revealed it follows the most stretched and unusual orbit ever measured ...

Five Year of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the ...

Yet the new findings imply that what telescopes detect may be dominated by processed, not primordial, chemistry. This complicates efforts to use such objects as probes of their natal environments. The ...

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

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

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 hole.

On Episode 184 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look at why space can be scary with a survey of some of the best (and some of the most laughable) movies about critters from outer space!

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.

The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...