The professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who won this year’s Shaw ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

The new members bring expanded expertise in ethics, space communication, animal intelligence, extraterrestrial materials and ...

The MoU was signed by Prof. Hamid M.K. Al Naimiy, Chancellor of UoS and Director-General of the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Science, and Technology (SAASST), and Salem Butti Al Qubaisi, ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Now, Lowell Observatory is expanding again with addition of the Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center, a state-of-the-art science center with interactive exhibits, a stunning theater and an ...

KU astronomy hosted a a stargazing and planetarium event on Nov. 7 at Slawson Hall for students, staff and faculty to spend a ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...

Carol Lee Lutsinger has taught and written about the stars for decades, and now she's something of a star herself. Lutsinger, who in 2020 retired from the Brownsville Independent School District after ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to ...