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

Chants of "Save NASA!" echoed through downtown Washington, D.C., Monday (Sept. 15) as agency workers and supporters rallied ...

Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

As a passionate stargazer, there’s nothing more exciting than the cosmic events that are predicted to occur within our lifetimes. Whether you’re an amateur astronomer or just someone who loves to gaze ...

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

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

Moroccan astrophysicist Meriem El Yajouri has officially joined NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore ...

A trio of University of Birmingham academics were awarded Fellowships to support ambitious research, with a combined funding ...

The first image of a black hole was of M87*, the supermassive monster at the center of the enormous elliptical galaxy M87. The image was only possible thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope, and follow ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The space rock—dubbed "2025 FA22"—is a sizeable 520 ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, with a substantial contribution from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), has unveiled new, detailed images of the supermassive black ...

Assistant Professor Xinting Yu from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) is one of the two recipients of the 2025 Harold C. Urey Prize.