In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

Xinting Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio, is one of two recipients of the 2025 Harold C. Urey Prize. The national award from ...

The Lake Havasu City Astronomy Club is looking for volunteers after it has reacquired equipment for a region-wide telescope ...

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a ...

Katherine Kornei is a freelance science journalist covering Earth and space science. Her bylines frequently appear in Eos, ...

Science explains the world with numbers and experiments, while astrology speaks through stars and symbols. One seeks proof; ...

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...

"The fact that we captured the aurora again demonstrates that our method for predicting aurorae on Mars and capturing them ...

When Rutgers theoretical astrophysicist Charles Keeton first saw an unusual picture shared by his colleague, he was intrigued ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the morning while it's still dark, just before astronomical twilight, look to the east, and try to see the ...