The pleasing environs had put Roelker, who was drinking rye whiskey procured from a local distillery called Catoctin Creek, ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

A radio telescope project known as the Deep Synoptic Array is moving forward. It aims to detect radio waves emitted by stars, ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a $4.3 billion dollar observatory that will hunt for planets and dark energy, ...

The likelihood of an impact isn’t low. A 2025 analysis led by the planetary scientist Carrie Nugent estimates asteroids 460 ...

Delta College's Observe the Moon Family Night on July 24 celebrates the Apollo 11 anniversary with astronomer Mike Murray leading an immersive presentation.

For 36 years, Space Place has opened the universe to stargazers young and old. At the end of June, it will close due to ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

There’s bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available as a preprint on arXiv from researchers at NASA’s ...

In astronomers’ speak, the term galactic bulge stands for the dense cluster of billions of stars, many of them packed tightly ...

Astronomers have previously found signs that Sgr A* erupted in the past, but evidence of an ongoing outflow remained elusive.

NASA plans to mount a daring mission to stave off the destruction of the Swift Observatory, which has been falling back to ...