According to NASA, the Leonids this year were particularly swift, hurtling at 44 miles per second, and are named for their apparent radiant point in the constellation Leo. Every 33 years or so, the ...

On Episode 187 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Glen Swanson, author of the new Star Trek history ...

The discovery was confirmed by the Minor Planet Center, the world’s official authority for verifying new asteroid findings ...

The Macon County Conservation District has expanded its lineup with its new StarLab Portable Planetarium, due in part to a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is now delivering what astronomers have chased for decades: a glimpse of the universe’s first ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected phosphine gas in the ancient brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, a discovery that contradicts years of predictions about how phosphorus behaves in ...

Astronomers are uncovering new ways to study the universe’s first stars, objects too distant and faint to observe directly, by examining the ancient 21-centimeter radio signal left behind by hydrogen ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

In Pythagoras' harmony of the spheres, celestial bodies follow mathematical proportions that correspond to musical intervals.

Over the course of billions of years, the universe has steadily been evolving. Thanks to the expansion of the universe, we ...

David Jewitt, professor of astronomy at UCLA, discusses the comet known as 3I/Atlas, which is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star.