Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

The ghostly matter co-evolved with regular matter that makes up the visible universe.

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Perched high on a ridge in the South American Andes, a new observatory aims to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos and unravel some of the mysteries it holds. Featuring the world’s largest ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...