Students can now reach for the stars, literally, through the new astronomy major at the University of North Carolina at ...

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

Royal Museums Greenwich have announced the winners of this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition! The ...

Press Release from The University of North Carolina Asheville: The University of North Carolina Asheville’s Department of Physics and Astronomy recently launched a new astronomy major — the first in ...

For years, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring the slopes of Mount Sharp inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater, ...

The International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2026 will bring 3,000 participants from 80 countries to Vietnam's ...

The RT-70 radio telescope in Crimea was once used to support missions to Venus and transmit messages to potential alien life in the cosmos.

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

An interest in astronomy may strike early in life or later. Regardless of what lit the fire of that interest, you need ...

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 ...

First, gravitational waves proved Einstein correct. Now, they’ve confirmed Stephen Hawking was right about black holes.

Though this visitor came to us with no name, we’ve given it one: Comet 31/ATLAS. Astronomers have also officially classified ...