Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly, after Darth Kule/Wikimedia Commons Type O stars, which are the hottest and bluest, are also ...

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...

An international team of astronomers, led by a researcher from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), has shown that the Sun's ...

Sep. 13, 2024 — Physicists propose that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how ...

A Hungarian astronomer recently discovered previously unknown near-Earth asteroids, the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network ...

Hundreds of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been recorded as part of an enormous global effort so extensive it "rivals the ...

New observations show the bubbling surface of the red giant star R Doradus, a feat previously only achievable with the Sun.

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more top down than bottom up. By Katrina Miller The SpaceX capsule, whose ...

Now in its 16th year, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition aims to highlight amateur space photographers from around the globe. This year's winning image was taken by Ryan Imperio ...

In 1977, in a room full of middle school students in Lincoln, Massachusetts, Philip Sadler invented the world’s first portable learning dome, Starlab. Since then, Starlab has “engaged, inspired, and ...

However, a new debate now grips the astronomy community: two independent measurements ... has used particular stars that fall ...