"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away. Their study, published in The ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...

The Fred G. Dale Planetarium is gearing up to show night skies, lasers, and much more for the month of February 2025.   The ...

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly ... This is often done using a laser guide star, a strong laser beam shot into the sky that provides a “perfect” example star whose distortion is measured ...

More than 3 billion years ago, when the Moon’s volcanic mare (the dark lunar “seas”) were formed, the Moon was rife with ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

If extraterrestrial civilizations exist with technology similar to ours, could they detect Earth? A team of SETI researchers ...

Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of objects and phenomena that are found beyond our solar system. This combines theoretical simulations and observation with both terrestrial and space ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to the lunar surface. By Kenneth Chang Scientists proposed an ...