From the ancient Assyrians and Greeks, to the greatest minds of the Renaissance, and up to the billionaire space explorers of ...

For the photographers honored at the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards, the universe is their muse. From our ...

The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new ...

At incredibly small scales, the universe operates according to the unfamiliar rules of quantum mechanics. And Planck’s ...

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some trivia.

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

We're combining astronomy and nature for this week's Mark at the Park.

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...

Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...