On February 17, 2007, NASA launched a quintet of satellites to figure out the science behind Earth's most colorful auroras. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The mission was titled ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

Review in Nature Astronomy highlights how UC Santa Cruz’s Lamat Institute leverages cultural strengths through tailored experiences, raises awareness of systemic barriers, and builds culturally valida ...

The Fermi Paradox asks a simple question: if the universe is so vast, why haven’t we detected other civilizations? Yet new perspectives suggest the silence may not mean we are alone. Advances in ...

If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...

Lanakila Mangauil, one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

The New Crescent Society, which is organizing the Greenwich event with the Royal Observatory, is hoping moon sighting will become fully established in Britain and be used by mosques.

The research team used two distributed sensors and leveraged two quantum resources for increasing detection sensitivity: ...

For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released new, detailed views of M87*, the supermassive black hole at ...

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) offers new insights into cosmic expansion and dark energy, gathered over six years and 758 nights of observations.

Charleston, SC, astronomy professor answers questions from high school students about wormholes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space odors and more.