At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...

If metallurgy reveals Africa’s technical mastery, trade reveals its global centrality. For centuries before European expansion, African societies were not peripheral to world commerce. They were ...

Today's word of the day 'Astrolabe' refers to an ancient astronomical instrument that once helped people navigate both time and space. An astrolabe is a small, handheld instrument once used to observe ...

She turned the impossible into history. Dr. Katie Bouman led the development of an algorithm called CHIRP that helped create ...

The K-DRIFT telescope, built with purely domestic technology and installed at the El Sauce Observatory in Chile, has ...

Who made the present-day official outlines of the 88 constellations and why do they contain so many zigzags?Caitlin ...

Great Scott! Legends of Tomorrow still rocks even 10 years later.

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

Priyamvada Natarajan is among the top astrophysicists in the world whose work has significantly advanced our understanding of ...