Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and some interesting parallels relative to today. Ancient civilizations that ...

Humans and bees share genetic traits responsible for social behavior, suggesting that the basic elements of connection transcend species.

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb ...

A Kenosha astronomer has uncovered a piece of astronomy history — a telescope once thought to be lost forever.

A team of researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover 12 ancient black holes from 12.9 billion years ago ...

The winning image of the core of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was captured using a long focal-length telescope at the AstroCamp Observatory in Nerpio, southern Spain, where clear skies and an absence of ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the former chairman of Harvard's Department of Astronomy and current head of Harvard's Galileo Project, which searches for ...

A new paper published in Physical Review D in September, by Frieman and Anowar Shajib, a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics, combines current data from a ...

And speaking of the break of dawn, that happens nowadays at around 5:15 a.m. local daylight time. And that's the time for ...