On what would've been the astronomer's 90th trip around the sun, here's a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and ...

No Brakes It turns out that there are consequences to launching an unchecked amount of satellites into the Earth's orbit.

For most of human history, understanding the night sky was not the preserve of scientists, but a precious tool for our ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Using the CHIME telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected a new repeating fast radio burst (FRBs) source ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international ...

The researchers urge the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which approves satellite deployments in the U.S., to ...

Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we ...