The quest for habitable worlds outside of our solar system is not just the stuff of science fiction. The study of ...

Blue Origin and NASA are teaming up on a new mission to protect Earth from asteroids, building on NASA's DART success.

University physics and astronomy programmes are in a period of rapid transition. Shifts in student demographics, technological acceleration, and growing ...

Using various space telescopes and ground-based facilities, astronomers have performed X-ray and radio observations of an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar known as MAXI J1957+032. Results of the ...

The largest-ever communications satellite of its kind took a major step toward operation Tuesday: operator AST SpaceMobile announced the record-breaking spacecraft, whimsically called BlueBird 6, has ...

Donald G. York was a longtime University of Chicago astronomer and astronomy professor who co-founded the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a wide-ranging mapping of the solar system that produced a ...

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A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to map the galaxy’s hidden structures. The image is sharper, deeper, and ...

David Blair receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery and is director of the Einstein-First education ...

Billions of years ago when planets formed in our solar system, leftover debris remained, orbiting between the planets in flattened disks made of bits of ice and rock. New research on these debris ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. Federal appeals court judges on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling preventing the ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image ...