Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

On a remote Chilean mountaintop, inside a domed observatory named after astronomer Vera Rubin, a camera unlike any the world ...

Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...

A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio ...

Astronomers have identified a new kind of cosmic explosion extreme nuclear transients so powerful they outshine typical ...

While Bianco will be present in Washington for the historic first-look event, UD is hosting a watch party in Room 101 of ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

China’s Tianwen-2 launched May 29 to collect asteroid samples and study a distant comet, marking a major step in the nation’s ...

The Astronomy & Astrophysics group at the SETI Institute is at the forefront of exploring this intricate cosmic pathway, ...

Starlink already dims its spacecraft in visible light by tipping solar panels away from Sun reflections. A similar hardware ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...