"Astronomers have now found that sudden ejections of matter," are behind the changes in brightness being observed in pulsar ...

"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: Daichi Fujii (Hiratsuka City Museum) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Musi ...

What can planets orbiting red dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recently ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic ...

S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system could be something far stranger than a comet, possibly even alien ...

You've seen his outrageous Bloomington compound from Penn Avenue. Now get to know the drag racer/stuntman/inventor/businessman/rocketeer who lives inside.

Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission was how Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the ...

The latest approach has been to use Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), powerful emissions of radio waves that last just a fraction of ...

Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull on each other in a binary system. They interact, they irradiate one another, ...