Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

For more than three months, a pair of observatories, positioned on either side of the Sun, managed to track an active region ...

This year's Royal Astronomical Society Fowler Award for early achievement in astronomy has been awarded to University of Warwick's Dr. Ingrid Pelisoli ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

A new discovery in physics can be exciting, but are scientists declaring quantum victory too soon? Many breakthroughs aren't ...

The University of Nebraska at Kearney Planetarium is inviting the public to explore the universe with a new lineup of ...

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...