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

PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS: Professor Robert G. Morrison celebrates the launch of his new book in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library ...

Oconee County resident Susan Vizurraga has written an historical fiction novel on a little-known female astronomer.

Astronomers have discovered a ghostly dwarf galaxy in a distant corner of the universe, which may have been a 'runaway' expelled from its original galaxy group billions of years ago, now drifting ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

It is now asteroid 2023 CX1, the first cosmic object that we have tracked from its discovery to its destruction, and the ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

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

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

A study involving University of Arizona astronomers and telescopes is shedding new light on how black holes feed on matter and belch out energy.