The Franklin Institute will celebrate International Astronomy Day with a lineup of space-themed activities on Saturday, April ...

The comet contains higher levels of this simple alcohol than almost all known comets from our solar system.

A thin, stubbornly bright line showed up in data from the MeerKAT radio telescope that did not fit the usual rules of ...

Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth's history that created the moon.

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the most precisely aligned structures in the ancient world. Its sides point almost ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

Associate Professor Hanae Inami at the Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center specializes in astronomy, with a particular focus on galaxies beyond the Milky Way — a field known as extragalactic ...

Dr Noelia Noël, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Surrey, has been awarded this year’s Leadership ...

A dying star’s final breath creates a haunting, brain-shaped cosmic silhouette.

After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT capturing the universe’s most distant gigamaser to Ghana’s radio ...