The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140. "Shells of cosmic dust created by the interaction of binary stars appear like ...

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

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.

An international research collaboration has used advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from ...

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 ...

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

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

Lingering summer weather welcomed hundreds of students to explore clubs and find community over the course of three days ...

With the smoke cleared in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, stargazers should, if the weather cooperates, enjoy perfect dark ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

Amid school-wide budget cuts, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Astronomy, Math and Physics Library has closed. The ...